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WORK hadn’t stopped for 78-year-old Miriam Margolyes prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

She had been busier than ever starring in a raft of work including the recently released lm Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, playing Mother Superior in the internationally acclaimed televi-sion series Call the Midwife, re-cording a book for Audible and hosting various documentaries.

Have a Go News spoke to the international doyenne of stage and screen from her home in London and discovered a warm and sincerely frank woman unaf-fected by her celebrity status.

Margolyes has an unapologet-ic sense of justice and this plays out in the many documentaries she has made. Her latest docu-mentary is a series for the ABC called Almost Australian which airs this month.

The dual English-Australian citizen became naturalised in 2013. She says she has a strong connection with this coun-try and is very proud to be an

Australian citizen.“My partner is Australian, we

have been together for 52 years and I wanted to become an Aus-tralian like her, so we set it in mo-tion,” she said.

Travelling more than 10,000 km across four states for two months during the production of Almost Australian gave her an opportunity to explore the Aus-tralian identity in the 21st century.

“Making the documentary was a wonderful experience and I found it very moving and very shocking. It opened my eyes to the bits of Australia I didn’t know, especially about rural Australia.

“They were in the middle of a drought and people there had to scrape a living.

“In the cities you see success-ful Australians having tasty meals and running along the beach.

“There’s a lot more to Aus-tralian life. I didn’t know much about the Aboriginal existence which is extremely tough, and I think that’s an area where ev-eryone has to do a bit of soul searching and grow up.”

Margolyes said that she feels

Australia has developed a bit of a nasty streak that wasn’t present when she rst started coming here in 1980.

“It’s a great country with a great history and if they sort themselves out, I hope it will re-gain a moral magni cence that it does not have at the moment.”

This documentary will provide an insight into the Australian ver-nacular like never before, deliv-ered with Margolyes inimitable humour, wit and frankness.

“So my picture of Australia is not genu ecting at the beauty of Australia and the glory of Austra-lia and thinking that it is the most wonderful country in the world because it isn’t, but it can be an even better country if people wake up to their responsibilities,” she said.

Margolyes believes passion-ately in a fair go for people. Her desire for justice sees her take on advocacy and ambassador-ships for many organisations including Age UK, the National Osteoporosis Society and Bowel Cancer Australia.

Recently she has taken up

advocating for the unfreezing of the UK State Pension for the 250,000 plus expats who live in Australia.

“Jim Tilley from British Pen-sions in Australia contacted me about two years ago about this frozen pension issue.

“It seemed so grossly unfair to me that at the very time of life when people who had given their best years to Britain and were moving to Australia to be with their children and grandchildren should be deprived of the natu-ral increase of the pension that’s off ered to people who are still in Britain.

“I nd it is not fair and I just love fairness. I believe passion-ately about fairness and one of the things about Australia that attracted me in the 1980s was that phrase – give them a fair go,” she said.

UK expats who are entitled to a British State Pension in Austra-lia have it frozen, which means that the rate they are paid re-mains the same from the year they receive it.

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LIZ Smylie in 1988 won Olympic tennis bronze and the Australian and Wimbledon champion was an early supporter of the Special Olympics. Liz became Queens-land tennis tournament director and is remem-bered for her smile as star of a chewing gum TV commercial. With Wendy Turnbull, Liz led the return of Australian tennis to the Olympics after 64 years.

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Word of the monthTenebrousAdjectiveMeaning - dark and gloomyThe Latin root word tenebrous means darknessExampleIt was a tenebrous deal made between the politicians. The house had long and tenebrous passageways.

1. Which company has created hundreds of badges in WA Australia over 100 years?2. What organisation is responsible for WA’s power poles?3. Which Channel 9 newsreader went to work for Premier Colin Barnett?4. The Men’s Sheds movement began in which country?5. Powerball is operated by which organisation?6. Which NZ rock star wrote opera Star Navigator, which was to be premiered in Perth?7. Which university is in Nedlands?8. Casey Dellacqua starred in which sport?9. What is the rst name of the female presenter of Antiques Roadshow?10. Which Welsh actor starred in Silence of the Lambs?See page 32 for answers.

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I CELEBRATED the eas-ing of COVID-19 restric-tions by taking a drive to Mandurah to sit on the foreshore and eat sh and chips. The only so-cial distancing not being observed was from the pesky seagulls! It was a glorious day and watch-ing the many groups of people who had the same idea as us, made me think about the im-portance of socialising in our lives. Promoting social connections with people has always been an important part of this paper and we continue to do that even in these strange times.

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pating in the Driveway at Dawn ANZAC Day cel-ebrations and felt it was a wonderful way to pay our respects to our service men and women. Our household was out with candles and the Austra-lian ag listening to Steve Mills on Radio 6PR. We

all felt very moved by the experience. Perhaps we could continue this each year for those who don’t want to attend a formal service.

★★★I received a copy of

WA’s best-selling author Natasha Lester’s new tome The Paris Secret. I started reading it on AN-ZAC Day which seemed appropriate as it centres around events in WWII. Lester really has a gift for writing historical ction and her research is top notch. She always in-cludes an overview about what is fact and what is ction at the end of her books. I devoured it in record time and recom-mend it as a must read. A review will be in our June issue.

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stopped the normal loss-es in life and I send my condolences to the fami-lies of two good friends Stephen Jones and Mi-chael Osborne. They were both avid travellers and had featured stories and photos in our pages. May they now both be traversing the world in an ethereal way.

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in hibernation for the time being. I have felt it’s not appropriate to run ar-ticles on places we can’t visit. It will return once we have some idea of when we can travel again.

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my thanks to the readers who have supported our appeal. This means the world to me personally and your help is ensuring we can continue publish-ing during these turbulent times, see page 5 for more details.

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interview Miriam Mar-golyes last month who is featured on the front cover. About to turn 79, she has been working harder than ever pre-CO-VID19 and is a wonderful example of the have a go spirit. I had so much ma-terial from this interview that I will feature a fol-lowup story on her in our June issue.

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Living the ‘have a go’ philosophy through a variety of life experiences

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MOST people manage to pack a range of experi-ences into their life span. But Graham Hawkes has done much more than most – teacher, historian, speedway rider, ministerial adviser, radio announcer and guitar maker.

At 78 he is still hard at work as a luthier – build-ing guitars in his well-equipped Woodbridge woodworking workshop and volunteering as an an-nouncer on Radio RTRFM.

For ten years he was a ministerial adviser on electoral reform to Arthur Tonkin and later Mal Bryce.

But when Labor lost the 1993 election Graham was out of a job.

“I could return to teach-ing but being back in school would have been a pain after my international travel and political experi-ence.

“So I started to make

guitars. Few people make a living solely making gui-tars, some teach or per-form to make ends meet.”

In 2007 Graham was persuaded by Naomi Mil-let, the long term presenter of The Guitar Show on RTRFM to become in-volved in radio. He took a presenter’s course and now presents the show, now called Plucked Strings, every other Sun-day evening from 6pm.

“I’m still doing it after 13 years. The station is full of energetic young people and I like to interact with them,” he said.

“My lasting aff air began with discovering classical guitars while an under-graduate student. I tried learning to play a guitar but I soon realised I had not got the gift and would never become a musician.

“I decided to focus on collecting records and CDs, promoting a few concerts, serving as an of-

ce bearer in the Classic Guitar Society and main-taining a diary of guitar events on my website.”

Graham was Bun-bury born and educated at South Bunbury High School, followed by study-ing for a history degree at the University of WA.

“I was not a very suc-cessful student, I was in-terested in other things. It took me four years to complete a three-year de-gree,” he said.

At the same time he became involved with gui-tars.

On obtaining his Di-ploma of Education, Gra-ham was sent to Belmont Senior High School and taught social studies, his-tory and English.

“Fortunately I was not expected to teach math-ematics.”

Belmont SHS was very large with 21 year eight classes organised by stu-dents’ IQs. The top form was 21. Graham struggled to teach number ve.

“After two and a half years I was sent off to Es-perance mid-year. I taught the same subjects but managed rather better.”

Graham had friends teaching manual arts and the Education Department was short of manual arts teachers.

“I enrolled in a night school woodwork class and when I completed that I applied and was accept-ed on to a special program to bring in more manual arts teachers.

“The program consisted mainly of tradies learning to teach. I was a teacher

learning trades.“After the induction pro-

gram I was sent to John Forrest SHS and worked there for two years.

“The kids were keen on manual arts and I enjoyed teaching them.”

Next Graham took up speedway racing. He also got married and went to England to become a pro-fessional motor cyclist.

He was accepted as a team member of the Shef- eld Tigers and got a few rides when established riders were injured or not available.

From there he moved to a B grade team, the Doncaster Stallions. He was made team captain and went all over the UK with them. However after a second season he and his wife decided to return to Australia.

They took a tour from London to Calcutta in In-dia.

“It was a wonderful ex-perience but we lived in tents and it was very cold, especially in Turkey. When we got up in the morning water was frozen. By the time we got to India the only food left was spam and potato salad. I can’t eat potato salad to this day.”

They arrived back in Perth for Christmas and Graham returned to his old job at John Forrest SHS. Two sons, Evatt and Adam were born 1972 and 1974.

In 1972 Graham sold his motor bike and got involved in the Campaign for a Democratic Par-liament, an initiative of

Arthur Tonkin.Parliament selected the

boundary between metro and country regions and decided how many mem-bers would represent the regions either side of that line. The resulting vote weighed heavily in favour of country seats.

The Western Australian Legislative Council con-tained the worst imbal-ances in representation in any Australian State or Territory parliament. In the legislative council each metropolitan seat had some 400,000 electors and the Mining and Pas-toral region about 70,000. Each region returned six members to the Legisla-tive Council.

Meanwhile Graham continued teaching and studied for his Master of Education degree at UWA. He also stood for election to the Legislative Council Western Province in 1977, unsuccessfully.

“I felt let down by the system. The Labor Party promised to include elec-toral reform in its program but the issue was not in-cluded in campaign ma-terial. Not many people in the Labor Party were inter-ested in electoral reform.”

So he changed direc-tion again and studied for a Graduate Diploma in Art and Design at WAIT and drifted away from politics.

In 1983 Labor won power with Brian Burke as premier and Arthur Tonkin minister for electoral re-form. Graham became an adviser to the minister for 10 years. This involved wi-descale travel to study the

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electoral systems in other democracies.

In 1987 Arthur Tonkin resigned and Mal Bryce took over as Minister for Electoral Reform, with Graham as his adviser.

Bryce did a deal with the Country Party (now the Nationals) led by Hendy Cowan.

“The Country Party members were trustwor-thy, you could negotiate with them. It was not pos-sible with the Liberals,” said Graham.

So an Electoral Reform Act was passed that re-duced the imbalance.

“Since then the Legis-lative Council has been more eff ective,” he said.

On holidays Graham and second wife Maggie make a beeline for France and cycle through the French countryside. Their tour company pre-books accommodation and car-ries the baggage, but

they are left on their own to navigate from town to town and to practise their somewhat stilted French.

“We regularly get lost. We made an eff ort to learn French but we left it too late to be able to communicate beyond the basics.”

At 78, Graham re ects over his multifarious ca-reer.

“I’ve had a fantastic life,” he says.

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Dear Editor,I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with Ted Bull’s com-ments regarding older people being referred to as elderly.

I am 71 and prefer to think of myself as mature aged.

I have noticed at the shopping centres that the seniors’ parking has a picture of a stooped per-son with a walking stick on the sign. How about they just put a sign ‘Seniors Parking’?

Thank you for a great paper.Jan Hunter

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Dear Editor,JUST to expand on my previous letter.

John Cook et al examined 11,944 abstracts from the peer-reviewed scienti c literature between 1991-2011 that matched the topics ‘global climate change’ or ‘global warming’ and 66.4 per cent expressed no position on global warming.*

The magic 97.1 per cent gure comes from an endorsement that “humans are contributing to global warming” from the remaining 33.6 per cent.

So, surely a more accurate conclusion from this study would be that less than half of the scientists surveyed believe that humans are the main driver for climate change or global warm-ing.

The data in this particular study is not so con-clusive if presented in a diff erent way.

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Dear Editor,FURTHER to your article on scams circulating about the COVID-19 virus, there is also a scam of people receiving either voice phone calls or texts that the their phone account is in arrears and they have to ring a number or reply to the text to avoid having their phone cut off .

If you get one of these do not reply. Go into a shop, if there is one that deals with the phone company you have your account with, or ring the company’s phone number on your bill and check it out. You will nd that 99.9 per cent of the times it is a scam.

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Dear Editor,THE Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centre (CRCC) of-fered nancial assistance to stay in a respite home for pension-ers and holders of a home care package (HCP) plan.

However, CRCC no longer ex-ists and its function is supposed-ly taken over by Carer Gateway. I rang them to enquire if I can get any nancial assistance for re-spite stay.

They directed me to MyAged-care.

According to MyAgedcare a

holder of HCP plan is entitled to residential stay and not respite stay for 63 days/year.

However, a residential stay costs about $1512/day (aver-age $63/hr) – this is only the cost for a 24hr nursing care, food is excluded – whilst a respite stay costs about $52/day (this in-cludes food, accommodation, nursing care).

It is ludicrous for a HCP holder to opt for a residential stay in-stead of a respite stay. Why can’t a HCP holder use the money for a respite stay?

However not all HCP service providers off er respite stay facili-ties. Therefore one may have to go to another HCP service pro-vider for respite stay. If a HCP holder is entitled for respite stay can brokerage service be al-lowed between HCP service providers?

Will the relevant Ministry to of-fer an explanation to this nonsen-sical situation of residential stay vs respite stay for HCP holder?

Thank you and kind regards,

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Dear Editor,I HAD almost ex-hausted all my audi-ences with my con-cern (that’s mild) with regard to the use of ‘elderly’ of which the connotations are end-less and all pejorative, when I saw your col-umn! Thanks for that because I was begin-ning to feel elderly.

Anyway the point of my communication is that I and none of my pals who are all ‘el-derly’ by de nition are not frail, hard of hear-ing or use a walking stick! Indeed, many of

us ‘do’ school runs for grandchildren, enter-tain them in their gar-dens jumping about like teenagers. We are always busy with the community (not the other way round) volunteering and the like. We constantly tell each other how lucky we are. We are mostly independent and en-joyed working fulltime in many professions as we reared our own children.

Speci cally, I and my partner (who is male) play tennis and golf, walk miles ev-

ery day and go to the beach for a decent swim about three times a week. We live in the Socialist Repub-lic of South Fremantle about 700 paces from the Indian Ocean.

We play bridge, cards and all sorts with the grandchildren and have an active so-cial life – very active! My partner is the trea-surer of the Fremantle Society and I am the secretary to the Fre-mantle Worker’s Club which has just enabled the reopening of the Fremantle Park (El-

lem Street) after it had to close, due to you know what, after only one event.

Oh, I almost forgot – I am a unit coordinator in the Humanities at Curtin University and boom, boom, I am 76 years of age – for that read elderly.

Thanks for this op-portunity to declare my hand and I cannot believe our genera-tion’s luck with our lot as we age.

Best wishes,

Mattie TurnbullSouth Fremantle

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by Frank Smith

PROFESSOR Mandy Stanley of Edith Cow-an University has re-searched how older peo-ple perceive loneliness and how service provid-ers can support them.

She said the policy of

social distancing, as a re-sponse to the COVID19 virus pandemic, poses challenges to maintain-ing social connection particularly for older peo-ple and risks increasing loneliness.

Women learn to enjoy their own company, but older men generally need to get out of the house to seek social contact.

“Women are more connected socially and there are more older women than older men. Women are used to be-ing alone in old age and have developed strate-gies for dealing with it.

“Men have been ex-posed to diff erent stress-es, mainly at work. They nd it hard to talk about loneliness; they are reluc-tant to reveal themselves

– part of the Australian male stereotype. Men from rural areas are even more stoic.

“We need to be look-ing out for older people in the community, mak-ing sure they have ac-cess to essential sup-plies and checking in with people regularly by phone. We are seeing really nice examples of people reaching out to their neighbours. I hope it continues,” she said.

“Older people place importance on maintain-ing social contact and a sense of connection and belonging to the community. Many older people feel that they are no longer needed. They are often disadvantaged by the digital divide. They may have a smart phone

but are still not able to connect by social media.

“Keep busy with a least one key interest such as craft, reading, sport, playing a musical instru-ment, or joining a social group. It is important to do something meaning-ful. Volunteering is im-portant; doing something for others improves your feeling of self-worth.”

She said research showed it is important to have a daily routine. Also a pet provides security and company especially at night. This is particu-larly valuable for older women who are con-cerned about safety.

“The really lonely peo-ple are those caring for a partner with dementia,” she said.

Loneliness is a com-

mon cause of declining ability and early death in the over 60s, according to a study by Dr Carla Perissinotto and col-leagues at the Depart-ment of Medicine, Uni-versity of California, San Francisco.

The study followed 950 women and 650 men aged 60 or over for six years. Forty-three per cent reported feel-ing lonely at least some of the time. Nearly one quarter of lonely people died in the six-year study compare to fewer than one in six non-lonely people.

Loneliness was also associated with function-al decline, including par-ticipants being more like-ly to experience diffi culty in daily living tasks, ac-

Tackling loneliness in the lives of older Australians during COVID-19 pandemic

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While lonely people were more often de-pressed than others, most were not de-pressed. Loneliness strongly predicted death and functional decline even after adjustment for depression.

“Loneliness is a com-mon source of suff er-ing in older persons. We demonstrated that it is

also a risk factor for poor health outcomes includ-ing death and multiple measures of functional decline,” said Dr Peris-sinotto.

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by Josephine Allison

WITH many of us con- ned to home these days, there’s lots of time to sit back and relax with a good book. Western Australia has many talented writers with a wealth of stories to tell, often based in our State which makes it more ap-pealing.

Here are a few good reads for the months ahead:

Where Wild Black Swans Are Flying by author, artist and historian, Lynne Cairns, is a tale of Western Austra-lia’s Swan River Colony.

Little Becky Lees arrived as a baby, but by the age of 10 she has lost both her

parents in tragic accidents and owes her life to the Noongar people who res-cue her. Becky travels with them as they move inland for winter but, after a fatal attack by white soldiers, she must return to her own people.

Lynne Cairns researched the everyday lives of people in colonial Australia for her Master’s thesis and has also written a children’s novel, Cast Away, set in those rst days of white settlement. Her previous published work was in the eld of mari-time history (WA shipwrecks and Fremantle’s World War II submarine base).

Both books are avail-

able online, from Amazon, Booktopia and other online bookstores or from the au-thor: email [email protected]

Fever by Dan Churach weaves a tale of tension and intrigue triggered by several terrorist events that befall Australia.

Asha Sharma, a Global News Network journalist working in America, returns home to Fremantle on an assignment investigating a rash of mutated microorgan-isms ap-pearing globally.

From the zombie mi-crobes thawing in the melt-ing permafrost of the Arctic to new strains of Ebola virus

spreading into Thailand and Malaysia, was this Mother Earth’s attempt to resist the ecological onslaught of hu-manity?

A timely read.Dreams by the same au-

thor is a novel about parents and grandparents, about children and grandchildren, born or not yet born. It scrutinises matters of one’s family, and how those are forever a part of the spirit and soul.

The thriller starts with a big explosion which de-stroys a retirement village in Washington DC, killing more than 20 residents. When police try to track down two suspects, suspicion grows

that responsibility for the act rests with an unseen power.

American born Dan Churach has been a writer throughout his academic career. He and wife Karen moved to WA in 1998 and, from 2001, he lectured in chemistry and metallurgy in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at Murdoch University.

While a high school sci-ence teacher in Hawaii, he developed, wrote and illus-trated his own laboratory manuals. Visit Dan’s website at www.churach.com

Chasing Marigolds by Moira Yeldon came about when the author visited In-dia. Her main aim was to

ful l a long-held dream to visit the country and enjoy new experiences, while delving deeper into the yoga philosophy in which she had become immersed

She achieved all this but the impact of the country compelled her to write a book launched in Perth in February. This is Moira’s rst book, its title derives from the Indian custom of using marigold owers strung to form a garland and placed around the neck of a per-son being honoured or wel-comed.

The author is a certi- ed yoga teacher of many years’ experience which she gained while studying with her guru. She has also been a lecturer in communication, language and literacy and is currently learning sign lan-guage.

Chasing Marigolds is available from the author on [email protected] on-line through Amazon.com.au or through major book retailers. Her website is moi-rayeldon.com or on Face-book@MoiraYeldon Writer.

Inky Fingers, Itchy Feet by Beverley R Clark tells the story of Beverley and husband Stuart who retire from their jobs, sell their Melbourne home and set

off to explore Australia by caravan.

The fascinating book mainly consists of Bever-ley’s letters, known as her Caravan Communique, to correspondents around the world during 2001-2002.

In early 2001 the couple set off in their 4WD tow-ing a custom-built caravan for a safari around Austra-lia, simply ‘following their noses’. What ensued was a nine-month adventure from south to north through Cen-tral Australia before turn-ing to the west coast, then along the southern coastline to Victoria.

After spending the sum-mer in Melbourne, they ventured off again in 2002 through inland NSW and Queensland, then on to Cape York and back to Vic-toria. The couple now live in Perth.

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Left to right; Lynne Cairns - Where Wild Black Swans Are Flying - Dan Churach with his books Dreams and Fever - Beverley Clark’s Inky Fingers, Itchy Feet - author Moira Yeldon with her rst book Chasing Marigolds © Jillian Ciemitis Photography

by Tarquin Bateman, Communications and Events Coordinator – Masters Swimming WA

SUZANNA Olsen (pic-tured above), 27, is a Cla-remont Masters swim-mer and the current head coach of the Super ns. She is making waves in the Masters Swimming WA community for her positive contribution and tireless eff ort.

The Super ns are a club dedicated to pro-viding social and tness opportunities for people with disabilities.

As head coach, Su-zanna is very patient, persistent and deter-

mined. She shows up to every training session, puts in the hard work and is constantly improving. In 2019, Masters Swim-ming WA awarded her Coach of the Year.

“To me, success means to feel driven in everything that you do. Success should be mea-sured by how much you enjoy what you are do-ing,” she said.

“Super ns are a group that I am so honoured to be a part of.

“The swimmers and their families are my big-gest inspirations. Their untiring enthusiasm, kindness and loyalty to the club is remarkable.

“It is one of the most rewarding roles I have ever had – I really en-joy hanging out with my teams and getting to know them as people.”

Suzanna has a Bach-elor of Sport Science, Exercise and Health from UWA and in 2018 at-tained a Master of Exer-cise Science.

Since September 2019, she has also been employed by Down Syn-drome WA where she is an assistant project of- cer and social club co-ordinator.

Her love of the water comes from a swim-ming-centric childhood. Suzanna joined her rst swim club at the age of six and continued com-peting throughout her teenage years.

“I think swimming is an incredible form of ex-ercise regardless of your age or tness level,” she said.

“Many of us are intro-duced to swimming be-fore we can even walk, and it’s a sport you can do across a lifetime. It’s low impact and you can continue swimming even after injury.”

Her top tip for those wanting to improve their technique is to watch yourself swim.

“If you haven’t already tried it, I would recom-mend getting some-one to lm one of your swims,” Suzanna said.

“Having that outside perspective can help you nd your personal swim-ming style and iden-tify areas that you might want to develop further.”

Outside of swimming in a pool or the ocean, Suzanna enjoys cooking, acro-yoga, squash and getting out into the great outdoors.

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by Brad Elborough

IF you’re a sporting fan feeling a bit frustrated because COVID-19 lock-downs are keeping you from watching your fa-vourite teams play, spare a thought for Peter Carter.

He’s a Fitzroy fan and he hasn’t been able to watch his Lions run around for 24 years.

Just to clarify, The Fitz-roy Lions, or ‘the Roys’ were an Australian rules football team booted out of the VFL/AFL at the end

of the 1996 season.Pete remains a Fitzroy

fan; his favourite player was Bernie ‘Superboot’ Quinlan.

He didn’t follow their eight players that were adopted by the Brisbane Lions in 1997 (although he does smile when they win), nor did he move his allegiance to another club. He couldn’t go from not being able to sleep when his side lost, to bar-racking for a team that cost him so much sleep at night.

He is still an avid fol-lower of football though, mainly because of his ar-guably unrivalled love for the East Perth Football Club in the Western Aus-tralian Football League.

While on a football fo-rum website one night, he was following fan com-ments as they reminisced about their favourite Fitz-roy wins of all time.

So he wrote a book about them.

Fitzroy’s Fabulous Cen-tury - The 100 Greatest Victories 1897-1996 is a recap of games that Pete believes, after ve years of research, are the Roys’ best 100 wins of all time.

“I’ve included their eight premierships, Fitz-roy’s nine wins by 100 points or more, and the 10 games that Fitzroy won when a bloke kicked double gure goals, so that is 27,” he said.

“Actually, there is an overlap of 100-point wins and 10 goals by a player, so that is 25.

“The others, I relied on the quirk factor, including upsets when the top side has been beaten by the bottom-ranked Fitzroy.

They were on the bottom a fair bit.

“A couple of games were chosen because of the colourful match re-ports too, mainly from the earlier days.”

In it, you read some match reports, learn who the goal kickers were and get some context as to why Pete included the game, including some background and what he thinks about it.

He says that picking which games to include was tough; at one stage he had about 200 games in contention.

Strangely, of the 100 games, Pete thinks he was in the crowd for only about six of them.

You see, he has never lived in Melbourne. Pete grew up in Tammin, in WA’s Wheatbelt.

He followed the Royals as a kid. Then they were captain/coached by for-mer Fitzroy player Kevin ‘Bulldog’ Murray. When Bulldog returned to Vic-toria to captain Fitzroy in 1967 (and went on to win the Brownlow Medal in 1969), Pete started his love-aff air with the Lions.

You will learn not just about Fitzroy’s highlights in this book, but a bit about Pete as well.

And this snippet might tell you a bit about the man behind the words:

“Where did 1996 go wrong?” he wrote. “To start with, the AFL kicked Fitzroy rmly in the guts and out the door, one bounce into the gutter.

“Weeks later, hoping to end an 18-year premier-ship draught, East Perth lost the WAFL grand nal to Claremont in devastat-ing fashion, by two miser-able points.

“And when I’d nally managed to forget about footy for a while, I was dumped by my then lady friend at the MCG Boxing Day Test between Aus-tralia and the West Indies. Far worse than the rejec-tion was seeing the Auss-ies get beaten.”

Fitzroy’s fabulous cen-tury isn’t Pete’s rst self-published book. He also authored and released Dream, Drifter, Drunk, a lighthearted collection of short stories, based (sometimes loosely) on events that have

involved him.He has a couple more

projects on his ‘to do’ list, including a satirical crick-et murder mystery.

And although he is more than happy to rec-ommend self-publishing, he might try to approach a publisher for that one – now that he has two books to his credit.

“I might try a con-ventional publisher next time,” he said. “I’ll never win a Pulitzer, but have indicated I can handle a keyboard or a pen.

“But I would recom-mend self-publishing.”

The COVID-19 lock-down has cost Pete one of the great tools for pro-moting a self-published book – a launch.

That’s something Pete says is essential and something he plans to do once restrictions are lifted.

“I sold 80 copies of Dreamer, Drifter, Drunk at a launch,” he said. “My theory is people, plus al-cohol equals sales.

“They might not partic-ularly fancy the book, but alcohol will weaken them. And most people have a

social conscience and a sense of loyalty.”

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its pensioners a fair go and it’s monstrous, it’s completely insane that people who go to live in

Israel or USA receive an annual increase but peo-ple who go to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and some other countries don’t. It’s just nonsense

and the reason the Brit-ish government are not making it right is because they can ignore it.”

“They get away with it because the people they are wronging eventually will die and the problem will go away.”

Margolyes believes it’s time for these expat Aus-tralians to come together as a force and demand a change in the law.

British Pensions in Australia Association is lobbying to end this pen-sion freeze.

“The British Govern-ment is prepared to treat the old people abroad with this extraordinary deliberate callousness which is so shameful, and it wouldn’t cost that much to put it right and I think they should.”

With her irrepressible sense of justice, I couldn’t imagine anyone better to have on your side than Miriam Margolyes.

The three-part series Almost Australian airs on ABC weekly from 19 May at 8.30pm.

THE British Pensions in Australia Association (BPiA) advocates for the unfreezing of the UK State Pen-sion for UK expats living in Australia. With. their international counterparts they lobby the British Govern-ment to unfreeze pensions for people living in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and several Caribbean countries.

They also try to garner support from the Australian Federal Government.The Association is not-for-pro t and has been working for many years representing the rights of expats

who receive a UK State Pension in Australia. British pensioners have all paid for their pensions during their working lives through National Insurance

but the amount they receive depends on where they live. To nd out more about the association visit www.bpia.org.au or call 1300 308 353.

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by Lee Tate

WE truly live in a funny old world. We work hard, compete and boost our standards and incomes. But if we cop a blow to our money or our company production, we cry poor! Woe is me!

Despite the fact that business tycoons are earning millions of dollars every year, more money than they reasonably need to relish a high standard of

living, they squeal if they have to take a cut.

Old business hands say: business is like a game. He who dies with the most toys, wins.

In sport, players at the elite level take home truckloads of pay – some take millions every year – which often gets them into trouble: drugs, wild ways, domestic issues. Sports clubs provide -nancial guidance to keep their players falling off the straight-and-narrow, fo-cused on what matters most to the organisation – results.

Results, of course, boosts attendances, lure supporters and boost money through the gates plus big-deal sponsors and media companies hungry for

broadcast rights.Then there are our

banks. Australia’s big four banks, in a nation of 25 million, manage to scrape-in billions of dollars each and every half year.

If big companies don’t make more money than the previous year, heads roll. Jobs are often rst to go, but not of directors who may even nd justi -cation – perhaps by ‘cut-ting the fat’ – to raise their own salaries, pro t-share and expenses. All their decisions, of course, be-ing made ‘in the interests of shareholders’.

TV and radio news fo-cusses daily, even hourly, on share market uc-tuations. Shock, horror, there’s been a dip in share prices of some companies since yesterday. But, in

this paper loss, how many people are really aff ected by that downward dip in a company stock?

This is not to say a healthy capitalist system isn’t good for the ma-jority of us, for growth, jobs and advancement. But Covid-19’s worldwide economic slap-in-the-face has highlighted how much money is in the nancial system and can be put to use.

Elite sports players can cop 50 per cent pay cuts but still get half-a-million-dollars a year. Many ex-ecutives, too. They still make more than the Prime Minister.

Of all the money cir-culating in the world, too much of it has landed in far too few places when many genuinely needy

causes have gone beg-ging.

Australia’s superan-nuation funds hold an eye-watering $3 trillion ($1 trillion is $1,000 billion), the biggest lump of money in our history. That’s enough money to buy every major Australian company on the stock exchange out-right.

Despite trustees’ com-mitments to invest our money in our own best interests, we have no say whatsoever in our super-annuation. We are forced to contribute to these funds and that’s proven to be a good thing, but we can’t get involved in where it goes.

In baby boomers’ life-times, excesses have ris-en to astronomical levels.

Coronavirus has shown

how governments have billions of dollars in their power.

Of course, we can’t just spend all the money and loans have to be repaid. But now seems a good time to take stock, ap-praise our collective lives and our own and our na-tion’s aspirations.

We can start with a clean slate: Reassess our motivations, needs and priorities. To look at the big picture and ask: Do we want to continue down the same path as we rebuild our nation’s fortunes? Do we want to drive the same road, maximising pro ts at the expense of jobs (wait for new purges with Arti- cial Intelligence) and the very needy?

Could we accept small-er pro ts and lower invest-

ment returns? Do we want to foster excessively-fat pay packets for our ty-coons, sporting elite and movie actors? Do we re-ally want to deny a better deal for health workers, teachers and police?

What a good time to let some fresh air. No, it won’t change the world. But, with leadership, we could apply a little moderation.

What do you think email [email protected] with opinion in the sub-ject line.


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Dear Editor,RECENTLY I had been self isolating for four days when I realised an urgent need to obtain photo ID. As my passport had expired in late 2019 and I don’t hold a driver’s licence, I was advised that I had to attend the Department of Transport. Relying on public transport it should have been a relatively quick trip.

I had my pension card, seniors card, Medicare card, bank and rent statements, electricity bill and passport In my possession.

It took three visits to even get to rst base because I needed to supply a certi ed copy of my birth certi -cate which I did and even after that, because I use my married name I had to chase up a marriage certi cate as well, which cost me $50.

So from setting out at 9am for what I envisaged as an easy trip, I eventually returned home at 2.30pm in a state of exhaustion.

I wanted to share this with readers to save anyone else the same experience.

SincerelyLorna Brennan

East Perth

Dear Editor,I READ Lee Tate’s opinion column in the April issue of Have a Go News regarding the older genera-tion and agree with everything he wrote.

It reminded me of the three things my mother told me when starting my life journey…

1. Have good manners2. Get a good education 3. Get a good secure job doing

something you enjoy.I always followed the list and

although I wasn’t a good scholar and left school early, I was good at arithmetic and spelling.

I found this very useful when ap-plying for work. My rst two jobs were clerical and then my third job was with the Sydney Morning Her-ald where I worked for 30 years.

I stayed there until Warwick Fair-

fax took over the reins and got rid of all the staff aged over 50.

I moved to WA about nine months ago and I take the oppor-tunity wherever I can to get hold of the local paper so that I can learn more about this great state.

Of all the papers I read I nd the best is Have a Go News because there are great articles with no bad news, it’s very informative and I nd Lee Tate’s writing as good as any journalist at the Sydney Morn-ing Herald.

I do hope you can keep the pa-per going and that I and my guard-ian angel of a daughter, last an-other two years so I can have a rip-roaring dancing, drinking and singing 80th birthday party.

Yours sincerely Ian Russell

Port Kennedy

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DURING these times of enforced isolation it is im-portant to keep busy. One activity is to organise your photographs, both printed and those in digital form. This can be rewarding on many levels, not the least of which is the clean-ing up of boxes of dusty old prints and the digital equivalent by deleting poor quality or duplicated les on your computer.

This also applies to transparencies or slides. Many of us will remem-ber those long and boring slide evenings when rela-tives returned from over-seas.

You should be ruth-less in culling images which are damaged, out of focus or simply of no further interest. There is the temptation when con-fronted with hundreds of prints or slides to consider scanning them all onto a computer. Depending on the number of images in-volved, this can be a long and tedious task and if not done properly will result in a great waste of time. This is where selective culling of your images is really worthwhile.

If you don’t already have a scanner, you can buy a cheap multifunc-tion unit which includes the scanner with a printer. The printer section is ex-pensive to run due to the price of the cartridges, but the scanner section is per-fectly good for prints. You can buy dedicated scan-ners to copy transparen-cies; the more expensive scanners may have the

facility already. Before set-ting off to scan all your im-ages, practise on a couple rst and check the results on your computer screen to con rm you have the settings correct. The two most important settings are selecting ‘colour’ or ‘black and white’ and the scanning resolution. As a general rule scanning your prints at 300dpi (dots per inch) should be good enough for most purpos-es. For 35mm transparen-cies select at least 600dpi and preferably 1200dpi to get a reasonable image.

Once you are happy with the scanning tech-nique and the quality of the resulting image, decide on your ling structure for your computer. You may wish to make folders for family members, holiday designations and special events. It is advisable to make sub categories such as Christmas, weddings and birthdays under the special events folder. For holiday’s subdivisions such as location, date, activities are useful. Here a pencil and paper are a good idea to plan out your directory structure before doing the rst scan.

Once you are happy with the directory struc-ture, create the folders and sub folders on the computer with easily identi able names. Your scanned images can then be directed into these folders thus making it eas-ier to nd at a later date.

The same idea applies to your existing collec-tion of digital les on your computer, assuming that these catalogues don’t

already exist. If you are starting from scratch re-member there are three ways of moving images around between folders. They are, ‘cut and paste’, ‘copy and paste’ and ‘drag and drop’. If you use ‘cut and paste’, this removes the le from the original folder so it can be pasted in any other folder. Using ‘copy and paste’ al-lows you to move the im-age to another folder but leaves a copy of the image in the original folder as a backup. ‘Drag and drop’ is a bit more tricky. If you ‘drag and drop’ to a folder on the same disc, then it is the same as ‘cut and paste’, but if you do the same action across dif-ferent discs, (or to a USB stick for example), it is the same as ‘copy and paste’.

Once your images have been successfully cata-logued you will probably want some convenient way to nd and view them. Both Windows and Mac computer operating systems off er ways to do this, however the Win-dows operating system off ers only a basic display mechanism. There is a free application called ‘XnView MP’ which off ers a wide range of features including basic photo processing. Youtube has a number of tutorials on how to use this most versatile program.

Once all your images are nicely catalogued, what can you do to make the best use of them?

Here are some ideas:Create your own pho-

tograph album. There are a number of online programs, such as Pho-

tobooksRus and Album-works, which allow you to design your own albums. A free design application is provided plus help les to show how to edit the pages. Once the book has been completed, the resultant le is sent to the publisher and your creation will be delivered back to you by post in about two weeks. A vari-ety of book sizes and op-tions are available includ-ing soft and hard covers, quality of paper and bind-ing types. You can make your own family albums, travel books, wedding al-bums and genealogical records. The results make great personalised Christ-mas or birthday presents for those friends or rela-tives who have everything.

Learn how to modify and enhance your existing photos. Once you have digitised your images it is easy to make changes. These can range from simple actions such as cropping and straighten-ing to full blown image processing such as black and white conversion, noise reduction and co-lour improvement. There are many programs avail-able on the Internet which will allow image process-ing including XnView MP and GIMP, which is also free.

For more advanced work you will have to spend some money, but not a lot. Programs such as Photoshop Elements, A nity and ACDSee are very reasonably priced. The top of the range is Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Light Room,

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by Frank Smith

OLDER Australians who live in pri-vate rental properties have among the highest relative poverty rates in the OECD according to a report, Housing in an Ageing Australia by the Centre of Excellence in Population Aging Re-search (CEPAR).

They also suff er greater rental af-fordability stress than younger age groups.

It is possible to live modestly in Aus-tralia when the age pension as your only source of income, if you own your own home outright or live in so-cial housing. But people retiring with a mortgage or renting in the commercial market are not so lucky.

Traditionally most Australian se-niors owned their own home outright at retirement. But not any longer. The CEPAR report argues that homeown-ership acts as both a home and as a store of wealth to guarantee nancial security in retirement. But home own-ership is currently in decline due to lack of aff ordability.

House prices have risen faster than incomes for various reasons includ-ing easier credit, negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts.

Moreover many people are defer-ring home ownership until later in life, resulting in more of them (36 per cent) retiring still with a mortgage.

CEPAR’s survey found nearly eight per cent of older mortgagors were un-able to pay bills on time due to higher health costs and inability to earn.

People who spend more than one third of their income in housing costs are considered to be under housing stress.

One consequence is an increase in homelessness, particularly among older women. This is partly due to greater numbers in this age group, but the number of women accessing homelessness services is also much greater than in the past.

The report says single older women with low education who rented their home could expect to live 7.7 years of retirement in nancial hardship; they may be unable to heat the home, miss

meals, or have to pawn items. Unsur-prisingly older renters are likely to have less family support and more depres-sion.

A survey carried out by COTA WA, last year, also found that the wellbeing of those who own their home outright, or who live in a retirement village, are substantially better than those who still owe money on a mortgage into their older age, as well as those who are renting.

A person in private rental was 2.5 times less likely to say that they felt that their housing was aff ordable com-pared to those who owned their home outright, and even two times less likely than those with a mortgage.

There was a strong relationship be-tween housing aff ordability and survey respondents feeling of well-being.

CEPAR says the pension system advantages owners at the expense of renters. They say that including the value of a home over (say) $1 million in the asset test would save $2 billion a year in pension payments that could be used to increase rent assistance or

help poorer pensioners in other ways. They also suggest an inheritance tax would be a good way to nance better pensions.

This change to the asset test would also encourage older people living in over-large houses to downsize, creat-ing more housing stock for families.

CEPAR found that people who had downsized in the past were motivated to move (1) because the house was too big; (2) to be closer to family; (3) for lifestyle; (4) because the yard was too big; and (5) to alleviate nancial stress.

In the latter case this was mainly to move to a cheaper house without a mortgage.

Many also moved to a retirement vil-lage where the initial housing cost were about two thirds of privately owned houses, although on-going costs could be high.

The report also found that older peo-ple were less likely to regret their deci-sion to downsize compared to those who did so when they were younger.

Iain Shields of Home Hub said that more than 100,000 houses in WA are

unoccupied or under-utilised. Home Hub is a not-for-pro t or-

ganisation that tries to match people needing accommodation to what is available privately or as social housing.

“Home Hub is a one-stop shop that aims to bring potential renters and landlords together, matching suitable potential occupants with what owners want.

“We also aim to show potential occupants how to navigate what is available and combat issues such as computer illiteracy and lack of trust in government departments such as Centrelink and Homes west.

“On-line options are often the least visible to people seeking housing,” he said.

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by Lee Tate

AFTER our enforced coronavirus hibernation, the world will undoubt-edly come hurtling back at break-neck speed.

But wait, how’s this for an idea? We make a big change and ease the world back to some sense of re-

ality. We make Sunday a day of rest.

Absurd as it sounds, this could be the day at the end of the week when ev-eryone and everything we control takes a rest.

Shops wouldn’t open, workers and students could take a break, ev-eryone could switch off their mobile phones and their computers. Bosses wouldn’t try to contact workers.

Sundays would be sac-rosanct.

Those inclined could go to church, others could do their community bit, the kids could volunteer in summer at the surf club

or go to scout or girl guide outings. Companies could hold annual Sunday pic-nics with free ice cream and ginger beer for their workers (and Santa with gifts at Christmas).

Booze couldn’t be sold and fresh bread wouldn’t be baked. Service stations and garages would be shut, with the exception of an emergency roster sta-tion (other service stations would have a listing on their windows to indicate which station that is for that Sunday).

Workers would switch-off their brains and focus on activities and hobbies. Quality family time would

improve with working fa-thers and mothers both at home.

Sunday drives could be enjoyed and trips into the country increased. Visits to nana and granddad could be boosted with occasion-al visits to uncle, aunties, nieces and nephews.

Mum would bake a cake or biscuits to take and dad would arrange to take drinks for everyone. People might drop-in on friends and relatives unex-pectedly.

During visits and Sun-day-outings, nobody would take computers or electronic games and those in upmarket cars

wouldn’t watch TVs tted to the back of the front seats.

On longer trips into the country, mum might put a damp face cloth in the car’s glovebox to clean kids’ faces and hands be-fore arrival. She might also bring a thermos, home-made sandwiches and cake and the car would stop at a park for lunch.

Car radios would be switched off to allow ev-eryone to talk. On long road trips, family games would be played: Who’s rst to spot the red car or the ock of sheep. There’s also the game of “I-Spy” (something beginning

with….S).The whole family might

go to the beach and set up a beach brolly for a couple of hours before lunch and head home before the sea breeze comes in. Some-one might bring an in ated car tube to oat on.

Rellies or friends could join the family picnic around the Swan River where some spots might yield prawns, blue-swim-mer crabs, cobblers (and blowies and jelly sh).

Some Sundays, dad might take sons for a rock climb, mum might help daughters learn sewing or play with dolls – or rock climb, too.

Yes, Sunday could be an entire day of rest and recreation. With family rst.

Nah! It would never work!

(Footnote for younger readers: That’s the way we were!).

Ed’s note – that’s how my Sundays were growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s.


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I HAVE always enjoyed the slightly risqué hu-mour of the British TV comedy Are You Being Served? With the recently published results of our WA ‘stay at home and do not go out’ policy, we seem to have done OK! I

can just hear young Mr. Grace saying: “You’ve all done very well!”

There were a few complaints from people forced to stay in four-star hotels.

“Room service? Send me up a larger room!”

I came into my room the other night and there was a blonde woman on the bed. I said, “c’mon now, I don’t want any nonsense, I’ll give you 24 hours to get out.”

Some people were forced to stay at Rottnest for two weeks with the taxpayer paying the bill. Wow, that would be dif- cult. One bloke after two

days in the hospital took a turn for the nurse.

Wash your hands twenty times a day they said. My grandfather used to take a bath once a month whether he needed it or not.

I suppose that many families found the rst few days, or even a week of lockdown somewhat of a novelty; something like an extra holiday.

No school camping in the backyard, sleep ins, 24 hour TV, board games, Net ix and DVDs and the likes.

However, before the second week has con-cluded, the situation may

well have developed into a form of Tony Barber’s Family Feud.

On my home ground, I couldn’t wait to get into the garden. Inspired by the ABC gardening show with the little guy with the big beard I had plans to reinvent my chook pen, upgrade the garden beds and, and… Well, a revital-ised garden bed was ma-nured and replanted, a new bed established, my mandarin tree planted, but the egg layers have gotta wait. “Mr Hum-phreys (Steele) are you free?”

Whether it was inspired by TV or just the fact that

it had not been done for 20 years, her indoors – the trouble and strife – the love of my life – she who must obeyed decided the bedroom and the lounge room should be repaint-ed.

She wanted me to do all the vacuuming. I said, “I will do the whole house when Harvey Nor-man starts selling a ride-on Vac.”

Apparently we are not alone. Bunnings is mak-ing a killing while baby boomers try DIY decorat-ing again!

Meanwhile, back in the real world, my musician and drinking buddies

(one and the same) are singing: “I drink alone” while trying to pay the rent and scratch some-thing to eat.

We all realise it’s rough out there, and there is some serious suff ering going on, but no matter how bad, you have to take some comfort in the old adage.

“There is always some-one worse off than me.”

Cruel, and true, but we are blessed to be living in this wonderful free coun-

try, home of the ANZACS, close to the Kiwi bros across the ditch, and heading towards zero new COVID 19 cases.

“You’ve all done very well.”

I said to my wife, after a full day redecorating: “Do you think some of the excitement has dis-appeared from our mar-riage?”

She replied. “Can we discuss this during the next commercial break!”

Cheers dears.

So much to do, so little time - a re ection on are you being served?

by Jon Lewis

ON my overnight radio program on 6PR I had an enlightening chat with a delightful guest, Libby Stone, which made me became aware of enjoy-ing life more.

We were talking about what makes us happy and how in our free time it’s important to enjoy life.

There are plenty of things we need to do and quite a bit more we

should do, but what is it we enjoy doing?

In my free time, or to be truthful in my procras-tination time... I seem to just ll it.

This is how: playing on social media, watching a little TV, being slightly entertained by a video and going through the above-mentioned pro-cess a second or third time. The end result is I felt no better. I don’t even feel rested.

My guest invited me to list a few of the things I actually enjoy doing... I was surprised that this was a more diffi cult question than it seemed.

I could think of many

things I do and many things that ll up my time. That was easy. Perhaps it was too easy? In fact it all seemed kind of automat-ic. However, I could not think of things I enjoyed doing! Can you?

Another ‘JL’, John Lennon once sung ‘life is what we do while we are busy making plans for other things’.

Could he mean life is what lls in the time between our important things?

I now wonder if my ll-in-life could actually be enjoyable?

Imagine, if during the big things in life, in those precious in between mo-

ments, I might enjoy my-self?

If I actually ended that free time with a feeling of satisfaction, grati cation and or elevation...

NLP Master Libby asked me: “how would you then feel?”

That was the rst easy question: “Happy”, I re-plied. So back to the tough question.

“What makes you hap-py?” I covered the nor-mal... love, food, I was stuck for a while... then I found a little thread, at-tached to a string, con-nected to something more substantial which lead me to my enjoy-ment.

I actually enjoy the company of my friends, talking to them, I enjoy making things, I enjoy xing things, I certainly enjoy playing my ukulele but more, I enjoy learning new songs, I even en-joy sitting in our outdoor furniture during the day. Working nights on 6PR I don’t often see these.

I think now my free time will be enjoyable and not just lled in.

It is funny how lled in time can leave you so unful lled. Bring on en-joyment I say.

Now for a tough ques-tion to you: what do you enjoy doing?

All the best.

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EVEN before our world was turned upside down by the coronavirus, many of us were feeling trou-

bled. Bush res, droughts, oods and the impact on people, livelihoods, wild-life and the environment over the summer empha-sised the reality of our changing climate. When my transition community group met in January, the overwhelming topic of discussion was how we can individually and to-gether deal with what has come to be called ‘eco-anxiety’.

Our meeting inspired a small group to come up

with ideas. The most pop-ular, a ‘Tribute Tree’, came from retired psychologist Georgina Kelly.

“It’s a simple idea,” she told us. “A tree, a letter box at its foot, a symbol of our connection to na-ture. A tree to which we off er tribute in the form of a thought or a feeling writ-ten down, a word, a letter, a picture or anything at all expressing our apprecia-tion for the natural world.”

Georgina set about bringing her dream to re-ality by enlisting support from Transition Margaret River, our local Shire and the Undalup Association, embracing Aboriginal cul-ture. With help from the Cowaramup Men’s Shed and a group of volunteers, she took a ‘mock tree’ to introduce the Tribute Tree project to the commu-nity at the Bunuru (sec-ond summer) Festival in March.

“The response at the Festival reinforced that writing tributes fosters a sense of warmth and wonder about nature as well as an opportunity to express loss and regret about increasing envi-ronmental degradation. It provides an emotional reconnection, a spiritual charging and also an emo-

tional outlet, all of which are critical for good mental health,” Georgina said.

“When I turned my at-tention to some of the sta-tistics that are coming out around the vulnerability of individuals and communi-ties, particularly our young, to conditions such as eco-anxiety, cynicism, dis-sociation, anger and de-pression, it became clear that observing increasing episodes of environmental degradation as well as the levels of anger and con- ict around environmen-tal issues were creating a toxic cultural environment. A place where all were fail-ing to thrive.

“The connection with nature which is the ac-tual heart of the matter was too often getting lost. Moreover, when I looked at friends who were work-ing towards saving our environment in public and private spheres, I saw criti-cal levels of grief and what I call eco-exhaustion. And often a pervading sense of alienation and isolation from a wider community that just seemed not to care.”

This is a personal jour-ney for Georgina, as well as helping her community.

“When I turned my lens on myself, I noticed I was

careering from a state of despair and cynicism to a place where I wanted to be proactive and hope-ful and then back again. There were times when I was courageous enough to care and times I just shut down. The Tribute Tree was like a note fall-ing into place. It just made itself apparent as some-thing I needed to do. I felt it was something that all people could bene t from, no matter how they positioned themselves in relation to environmental issues.

“Now I’m retired, I’m in-terested in feeding my life with neuroscience for the mind and nature for the heart. The convergence of these two interests lies in my commitment to

doing what I can to shift public interest away from unwitting self-destruction towards connection,” she said. “My personal ethic is to do no harm. I would like to see the rights of nature taken seriously and respected.”

The next step for the Tribute Tree is selection of a tree in a quiet re ec-tive space where people can sit and record their feelings. Meanwhile, you can join the Tribute Tree group on Face-book www.facebook.com/groups/209686 943472167/ and contrib-ute your own thoughts.

“Take a moment to fo-cus on your feelings about nature.

“Bring to mind perhaps something about the nat-

ural world that brings you joy or wonder. Bring to mind a memory of one of the ‘sweet moments’ you have shared with nature. Write a letter to the tree,” Georgina said.

When I was a young feminist there was a line I remember from Surfac-ing, a novel by Margaret Atwood: ‘I lean against a tree, I am a tree leaning’. For me this line encapsu-lates that state of belong-ing and convergence with the natural world that is truly transcendent.

If we are willing, the fra-gility and the resilience of our natural world reduces us to tears, elevates us to wonder and, as one of the tributes from the Bunuru Festival reads, ‘brings us home’.

Turning to nature to ‘bring us home’ during a stressful time

L-R; Letter to a tree - Georgina Kelly (left) with the Tribute Tree

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MONTHLY meetings of the Association of Inde-pendent Retirees AIR (Perth Branch) have been suspended until further notice.

However AIR is asking members, via their monthly newsletter, if they would like to use meeting apps such as Zoom, in order to hold remote meetings to keep all members updated.

AIR aims to protect and advance the inter-

ests of retirees who wholly or partly fund their own retirement.

Usually they have a monthly meeting with a guest speaker and morning tea at the Cam-bridge Bowling Club on the third Friday of each month. The speakers cover many interesting topics relating to nance, travel, health, com-munity and the special interests of members.

Future planned speakers include Senator Dean Smith, Eric Boon from Médecins sans Frontières, Tanya Trevisan on in ll projects and nancial planner Nick Bruining.

AIR always welcome new members. If you have any queries please contact Graeme gra [email protected] or Margaret [email protected].

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women enduring so-cial isolation to have an exercise program they can do from home, says

former ballerina Lisa Purchas, who launched Ballet 4 You in 2017.

Ballet 4 You was origi-

nally designed as a bal-let inspired exercise pro-gram for women. Last year the program was

launched on YouTube. The program can be accessed anywhere in the world and in the pri-vacy of home by visiting the dedicated YouTube channel Ballet 4 You-Ballet 4 Alzheimers.

“Ballet 4 You is a pro-gram I developed in 2017 for women with mild cognitive impair-ment and early stage Alzheimer’s and it’s also hugely bene cial for old-er people,” Lisa said.

“We have ve video clips currently uploaded to our YouTube channel playlist and people tak-ing part don’t need pre-vious exercise or fancy equipment. Google translates to 300 plus languages and our on-line program is com-pletely free.

“The current uploaded

playlist runs for 12 min-utes and it would be great for women to take part each day.

“Exercise for old-er women improves strength, balance, car-diovascular tness, well being and helps prevent falls. The classical piano music that accompanies all our Ballet 4 You video clips is with the compli-ments of Nigel Gaynor, musical director of the Queensland Ballet.

“We also have a Bal-let 4 You Seniors Face-book page and a Ballet 4 You Ballet Alzheimer’s Facebook page which we regularly update with interesting information, beautiful visual images and short exercise clips from classes. The web-site is www.ballet4you.com

Ballet For You has cancelled all its group and private classes for the present due to coro-noavirus, Lisa said.

“Like most people, we are reeling from the unprecedented and unexpected immedi-ate suspension of busi-ness and classes for an indeterminate period,” she said. “Because of this, we wish everyone good health and positiv-ity during these strange times.”

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Godfrey and granddaughter Alyssia - Lisa Purchas taking a class

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HAVE a Go News is a collection point for people to recycle their

plastic lids. As our of- ce is still open we can continue to receive lids.

Thank you to the many people who have already contrib-uted to this Lids for Kids initiative.

The WA chapter of Lids for Kids is setting up their own system to turn these lids into products that will help local chil-dren, particularly those with disabilities and personal chal-lenges.

While this is on hold during the pandemic, we continue to accept the lids for the future.

The lids suitable

for donation are from from milk, juice, water and cool drinks and plastic bottles. Please ensure they are clean, and the inserts re-moved.

Please do not in-clude other items in the drop off s, we only need the lids and can-not do anything with other plastics.

Donations can be made at the Have a Go News offi ce at 137 Edward Street, Perth, offi ce hours are Mon-day to Friday 9am to 5pm.

Have a Go News is a drop off point for Lids for Kids

READER and author Ena Willemsen, who wrote the book The Valley and The Sea has very gener-ously donated 20 books to Have a Go News to sell

for our appeal.The Valley and The Sea

is a collection of writings that cover many genres, a pot pourri of more than 100 pieces which are true and ctional. There are personal memories, po-etry, short stories, mus-ings, observations and the trials and tribulations of life in general.

There are snippets of local history throughout the book.

The author’s father set-tled in Australia in 1924 as an immigrant from Croatia. He established a vineyard in Herne Hill where his knowledge of

viticulture from the old country was put to good use.

This is a book that can be dipped into in no par-ticular order, depending on the reader’s mood, there is comedy or per-haps a little poetry and even a little nostalgia.

The Valley and The Sea is written by Ena Czelad-ka Willemsen and sells for $25. If you would like to purchase a copy email [email protected] with Valley and the Sea in the subject line or call the offi ce on 9227 8283 during business hours.

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MEMBERS of the Over 55 Canoe Club (O55CC) are not taking the restric-tions lying down. Well some are, but only after lunch or during TV in the evening, and of course at night, and er… some-times if the sun shines and the garden is quiet, and a zzzz is in order.

But other members have been out and about,

singly and in pairs. Some of their adventures follow in no particular order.

Choosing who to pad-dle with is fraught with trouble: who do I off end by not asking? Who do I off end by asking? Who will have me along any-way? Well our rst hero avoided all these diffi cult questions by going out by himself. The eet-of-one quickly chose a leader and a tail-end-charlie

(without argument) and set off bravely from Mos-man Bay to the beckon-ing take away (only) cof-fee of Zephyrs Cafe.

Not used to paddling by himself he was feeling particularly brave round-ing the wilds of Chidley Point without incident (a sort of mini Cape Horn) before stumbling across Zephyrs on the shores of East Fremantle. Feel-ing every bit the explorer he engaged with a swan while sipping his at white on the shore. That done he made it safely back to his starting place. If you think this is boring wait until the next adventure.

The next pair had no diffi culty in nding a kay-aking buddy as they are a married couple (not al-ways the best combina-tion). They ventured out to Shoalwater Bay as it is a great place to kayak. At Seal Island they were treated to sea lions frol-icking in the surf. There were no penguins to be seen on Penguin Island (never are). The ferries

were not running so the walk around the island was remarkably people free. No problems with social distancing. The sea breeze having settled in, the trip back was suitably bouncy.

Another next pair tack-ling the paddle out to Penguin Island were not a married couple (no whiff of scandal here), but the stories of their encounters with sea lions were bor-dering on the hallucinato-ry. A bit of a concern, but their paddle around to the scary side of Penguin Is-land was done safely and in good order. The one sea lion they encountered seemed a bit miff ed that only two representatives of the O55CC had come to see him instead of the whole mob, so perhaps he did seem grumpy. Sea lions are very sensitive creatures.

A paddle on the up-per reaches of the Swan went a bit awry for two good mates. The paddle was such an easy saunter in ideal conditions they

completely lost track of the distance covered. When lunch nally beck-oned they had covered more than 10km. A lazy snack on the bank of the river in a small vineyard completed the idyllic pic-ture. In a post-prandial haze it dawned on them that 10km out meant 10km back (quick think-ers these two), nally dragging themselves out of the water after a long two hours, they now re-port aches in places they didn’t know they had places.

If you are interested in nding out more in read-iness for a re-start (when-ever that might be) you can phone O55CC presi-dent, Iris, on 0438 926578 or the secretary, Dale, on 0420 733024.

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The intrepid lone paddler sets out

by Mike Goodall

THE COVID-19 situa-tion in the UK is causing massive problems for the two Government de-partments we work with: Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Department of Works And Pensions

(DWP). Both are working with reduced staff lev-els and reduced access hours on the telephone.

Mail is being delayed and, in some cases, just not arriving. Re-sponse times to work in the pipeline are growing rapidly because many of their services have been reduced or stopped and they are just prioritising urgent cases creating an even greater backlog.

I am often asked whether a person is eligi-ble to a share part of the UK State Pension with their divorced partners.

There is no simple an-swer, especially since the rules have changed over

the years and the date that a person reaches State Pension Age (SPA) determines which rules apply to them.

However, the current rule is that a basic state pension cannot be split or shared if your mar-riage or registered civil partnership ends. This means that a week-ly pension paid to one partner that is received from the UK Govern-ment is protected from being split between a person and their former spouse.

However, most people currently reaching SPA have contributed under both the old system (pre

6 April 2016) and the new system that com-menced on 6 April 2016.

Under the old state pension system if you reached SPA before 6 April 2016 a person could bene t from the National Insurance Contributions of their former spouse upon divorce. Therefore, a man born after 5 April 1945 and before 6 April 1951 and a woman born before 6 April 1953 could be eligible to a state pen-sion based on their di-vorced spouse, provided that they have not remar-ried or entered into a reg-istered civil partnership.

This rule can provide a surprise bonus for those

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sion Age’? UK Expats born before 6 August 1954 reach State Pen-sion Age on or before 6 May 2020. Those born between 6 August 1954 and 5 September 1954 will be eligible to claim their UK State Pensions from 6 July 2020.

Anyone who would like to discuss the above in greater detail or to un-derstand their options on any other aspects of their UK State Pensions, is welcome to contact Mike Goodall on 08 6364 0859, 0403 909 865 or via e-mail mikecgoodall@bt connect.com

Pandemic causes a huge backlog in the UK for expat British pensioners

by Maria Davison, Chief executive of cer, Alzheimer’s WA

AROUND 70 per cent of people living with dementia live at home and ideally will continue there for as long as possible. If your loved one is living with dementia at home, it is worth think-ing about small things you could do to make it a more dementia friendly space.

With many people spending more time at home at the moment, it is a great time to assess your internal and external living spaces.

Being able to live in your

own home is important to people for many diff erent reasons. It brings with it a level of independence that is sadly lacking in many residential care homes. Our homes are usually a familiar and safe environment and a place to feel comforted and protected from the uncer-tainty in the world around us.

There are many changes you can make that will help support and retain a per-son’s skills and abilities, as well as compensate for the eff ect dementia can have on them. You will also con-tribute towards improving their quality of life.

Any changes you con-sider should be made in conjunction with the per-son living with dementia. It is their home after all. By making too many changes all at one time you could unwittingly unsettle them even more. Not all changes will work for everyone, so it’s best to try one or two things at a time and see if

they help before moving onto the next thing.

Eyesight can deterio-rate as we age, and good lighting is important to help see properly. Dementia can aff ect a person’s eyesight, as well as how a person sees the environment around them. Ensuring your home has adequate natural light and bright light bulbs will help the person with dementia to navigate their way around. Bright inside lighting may also help eliminate dark spots or shadows, which can be confusing. Replacing light bulbs and having windows cleaned are simple, unob-trusive changes that can be made to most home spaces.

Light also aff ects sleep patterns, so it is important to ensure there is a lot of natural light coming in to the home during the day, and at night there are cur-tains or blinds that can be closed to shut out any arti -cial light from outside.

Another area to look at in the home is ooring. Changes in the colour of the oor from room to room, or from rugs and mats, can look like a hole or an object to step over. Mats and rugs can also cause a person to trip and fall, so try removing them where pos-sible. Lay brightly coloured tape to indicate steps and stairs and look for cables or other items which may be a trip hazard and move or remove them.

Dementia can aff ect how a person perceives colour and contrast. Contrasting the colour of furniture, bed-ding and light switches with walls and oors will make these items easier to see. It can also be useful to con-sider installing contrasting coloured taps and toilet seats, and using plates and cups that contrast with the table or tablecloth. Busy patterns and stripes can cause confusion, so try to minimise these.

Visual cues to help a

person remember where things are can be very helpful. Encourage keep-ing regularly used items in the same place, for ex-ample keys, phone, wallet and glasses on the table by the door. Grouping like items together on bench tops may also help a per-son nd and use them. In the bathroom, group items such as toothpaste, tooth-brush and hair brush on the bench. In the kitchen group coff ee, tea, sugar and cups near the kettle. Consider labelling draw-ers and cupboards with a picture and description of what is inside. This will help a person with dementia to continue using the kitchen con dently and most im-portantly, independently.

These are just a few sug-gestions for changes that can be made around your home. To nd our more, trying visiting our web-site www.alzheimerswa.org.au/live-well or call 1300 66 77 88.

Tips for making a home more dementia friendly

Coronavirus (COVID-19) information

For the most up to date information about the global pandemic visit the Western Australian Department of Health website at healthywa.wa.gov.au/coronavirus or contact them on the Coronavirus Health Information Line on 1326 843 at any time.

You can also visit the Australian Government Health Department website at www.health.gov.au

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For information on any of the above events please contact the SRCWA offi ce on 9492 9772.

SRC President, Hugh Rogers

TO all our friends and colleagues we send our best wishes. Like many of us SRCWA has been re-located to working from home during these times of social isolation. We want to assure everyone that we continue to work for and on behalf of the seniors of Western Australia. We are still planning events, programs and services so that when the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted we will be ready to implement them and move forward.

SRCWA is also available to assist anyone with advice and will attempt to locate answers to questions if we are able.

There may be a small delay in responding to your queries but if you call the of ce on 9492 9773 and leave a message, we will return your call as quickly as possible.

Have a Go Day 2020 Have a Go Day a LiveLighter Event is planned

for 11 November and this year the event will focus on Remembrance Day and we are planning to acknowledge all the observances at the event. Expression of interest forms are now available to all clubs, groups, not-for-pro t organisations and businesses who would like to attend as a site hold-er. While plans are full steam ahead to run this event as scheduled, it will remain in the planning stages until the COVID-19 restrictions on mass gatherings are lifted. Please contact the of ce on 9492 9773 or email [email protected] to request further information or have an expression of interest form emailed.

Pole WalkingFollowing the article Jen Merigan ran in the

March edition of Have a Go News promoting pole walking, SRCWA received much interest and requests for information. We have also been able to organise for some people to start pole walking. Thank you to Have a Go News for all their efforts in providing outstanding information. Call the of ce if you would like to know more about this activity.

SCAMS targeting seniorsScams and rorts have been around no matter

what the era. Although scams seem a lot more sophisticated these days, they have in most cas-es done the rounds before in one guise or anoth-er. We have been taught to lock up our physical property such as houses and vehicles and the same is advisable with our digital presence on computers and the internet.

Some things we can do to make ourselves a little more secure online is to “lock” our computer by doing the following:• Installing regular updates, allow the operating system to automatically update at regular inter-vals. • Installing antivirus software and regularly up-date it.

If you have a computer and don’t know how to do this ask someone who may be able to help.

Don’t click on links in “unknown websites” you may see a noti cation when you visit some sites which state “Congratulations You Are A Winner, Click Here To Claim Your Prize!” this may be an in-vitation to allow malicious software to be installed on your computer.

Malicious software can affect how your com-puter works it may also send every keystroke you make and data to a scammer’s computer.

This information can then be used to access personal information without your permission.

Always Remember:• Financial institutions will generally not send an email requesting personal details.• If you receive unsolicited communication from a service provider treat it with caution, call the provider on the phone number on your usual statement to con rm. • If a deal or opportunity seems too good to be true it de nitely is.• If you feel uncomfortable at any time during a request let them know you will be getting some independent advice from a trusted adviser.• Keep yourself informed on current scam trends by signing up for WA Scam Net Alerts, phone the Consumer Protection Advice Line on 1300 30 40 54.

If you have any concerns about scams, please contact Martin at the SRCWA of ce on 9492 9774 (leave a message with your details) and he will get back to you.

While we are available to assist people with advice and try to locate answers to questions if we are able, there may be delays in responding to your queries. Call the of ce on 9492 9773 and leave a message, we will return your call as quick-ly as possible.

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JUST when we thought television adverts could drive us mad, along comes coronavirus to compel us into more TV.

More TV, more ads. But what is maddening are the continually-repeated, barrages of adverts in the one program.

My current bugbear is with SBS relentlessly promoting its own shows

– over and over. Some of the RAC commercials are also given more than a healthy hammering – “I’ll call Mike in claims” – and we’re being blasted by bank adverts off ering to back whatever ven-tures we pursue.

Relief comes in a Cad-bury chocolate commer-cial with a little girl buying chocolate with buttons and telling the shopkeep-er: “It’s for my mum”. I melt every time.

TV networks are crank-ing-up adverts about themselves in these troubled times. We’ve pooh-poohed that in the past, but self-glori cation rules on the box.

I reckon the best TV

commercials have yet to be written, at least for Western Australians. I’d love to see a no-apolo-gies plug and push for the great State of WA, its people, its goods, its services, attractions and ways-of-life.

Charity begins at home, especially after crises. Previous Buy-WA adverts would pale into insigni cance with what could be done; what needs to be done, to lift us off the mat.

We’ve had a taste of support from tycoons, corporations, govern-ments, the Premier, sup-port agencies and indi-viduals including Fiona Stanley. They have called

for support for unity and togetherness in nice-ly-balanced TV adverts. But it is just a sprinkling.

Corporations have cash, governments have clout and people have push to get behind WA for the greater future good.

The full force of WA’s advertising, marketing, promotion, media and entertainment worlds can provide the llip this State needs to crank us up post-coronavirus. Unabashedly, we would promote WA people, goods, services and at-tractions in a long cam-paign.

An advertising cam-paign, supported by gov-

ernment and sponsored by those who care and those who will bene t, could feature a series of WA testimonials.

Presenters would be respected citizens and leaders, children, TV stars, seniors, disabled, sports stars past and present, business peo-ple, health and emer-gency workers, tour op-erators, city and country mayors, teachers, mums and dads, resort manag-ers, baristas...

All could volunteer their time and I’d be surprised if we weren’t knocked over in a rush of applicants.

The sort of thing for the adverts would be:

1. “Hi. I’m a West Aus-tralian mum and I am going to focus on buy-ing West Australian. A healthy, happy State is best for our family. For all of us.”

2. “Hello, we are 100 per cent West-Australian business and your sup-port will ensure we keep delivering the best of WA for West Australians.”

3. “Hello, I’m a West Aussie dad and when I look for something for the garden, I look for West Australian products.”

4. “Hello. You may have seen me in tele-vision programs which means I work away from home a lot. But I love Western Australia. I’ll be

having my next holiday in Western Australia.

5. “G’day. I’m a proud member of WA’s par-liament. Even though MPs are often divided, a strong State is in all our interests. When shop-ping, buy West Austra-lian. It supports us all.”

Of course, there must be plenty of variety. We don’t want adverts that drive us mad.


TV Talk with Lee Tate - the repetitiveness of television commercials drives one to madness

Love and Loss Edited by Renee Hollis Reviewed by Pat Paleeya

LAST month I reviewed the book Struggle and Success, a compilation of 25 true stories by or about people over the age of 60 from around the world. In this book

there are another 25 from the same short story competition, this book is titled Love and Loss, a collection which editor Renee Hollis de-scribes thus: “these real life stories are moments in people’s lives that show the importance of forgiving, the tragedy of forgetting and the tur-moil of moving on.”

Roy Innes’ story of Mary Amundsen, his unrequited childhood love in the 1950s, is beautifully written, gen-tle and soft. His words portray a love still vivid after all these years. His agonizing and paralys-ing shyness renders him speechless whenever she is near. There is a

heartbreaking end to this story and when he thinks of her now: “my eyes get tight and there is a deep ache in my heart.”

Maria Nolan’s story called Fairy Godmotherstells of Maria aged nine meeting with a distant relative, a stunning, sin-gle blonde from England who arrived with a man in tow, divorced and a protestant to boot. This was 1966, a small town in Ireland with small town morals and rural narrow mindedness. The humour in this sto-ry conjours images of a sophisticated blonde bombshell taking on the gossipy scandalised matrons of the day.

These stories will make you laugh, make you cry and make you think, some may take you on a journey of your own but all of them with take you into their heart.

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A collection of heartfelt stories of love and loss

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by Mike Roennfeldt

I MUST be getting old. It was just be-fore the arrival of the coronavirus and I had just returned from two hope-lessly disappointing shing trips. I

was almost ashamed to admit to myself that I’d had a great time re-gardless.

There was a sentiment that I of-ten used to express, but deep inside didn’t really believe: “catching sh is just part of the picture and being out there in a beautiful environment is really what it’s all about”, I would declare.

I can’t believe I spouted that non-sense. When I was younger and con-siderably more competitive, to me it really was all about catching sh and the beautiful environment was merely a bonus.

And here I am, many years later, reaping the rewards of the foolish ut-terances of youth, not catching much and still having fun.

It started in the Cocos Keeling Is-lands, where inclement weather saw us doing more sheltering than sh-ing for the rst few days of our trip. I had thought the doldrums meant hot, still, sunny days but it turned out that monsoonal rain is also part of the picture.

Over our week stay we landed just a handful of bone sh, the prime rea-son for our being there. Shallow tropi-cal ats where we had found them previously were strangely devoid of sh, partly I suspect because the big weed patches that attract the bones in to feed on a rising tide had com-pletely disappeared.

I’m back in Perth for a few days before heading off to the central highlands of Tasmania. It’s a place

I’ve been visiting most summers for at least the past 25 years. A couple of friends from Melbourne have a shack on Little Pine Lagoon, a legendry trout water where the IQ of the sh is often superior to that of the angler.

Again, the weather started out pretty nasty, this time without the softening compensation of tropical warmth. Bitterly cold westerly winds made life uncomfortable out on the water in my mate Jim’s punt.

Mid-afternoon rst day, Jim land-ed a stunning sh, a heavy shoul-dered brown trout of close to four pounds. Trout shermen, and those who chase bone sh for that matter, always refer to their sh in pounds rather than kilos. It makes them sound bigger.

I spent the day without so much as a look from a sh. It also turned out that the big brownie was to be Jim’s only sh for the week, although he did miss a couple of hits.

By the last day I still hadn’t had so much as an enquiry but my maiden status was challenged late in the af-ternoon by a smallish but beautifully proportioned brownie of my own. Only one sh had risen to my dry y over six days shing but at least I had caught it.

By any one’s standards it had been an abysmal double-header of trips but it didn’t curb my enthusiasm for either place.

Next year will be better because surely you can’t keep on having trips like that… can you?

by Numbat, Our Travelling Scribe

PERTH is dotted with tranquil gems, little picnic pockets that don’t feature in promotional brochures or TV travel blurbs but could easily outdo any ex-otic place. None are count-ed among WA’s fabulous lookouts or famous tourist haunts; some you would have driven past without a second glance.

Western Australia is en-dowed with many dramatic and natural locations but our recent travel restric-tions raised the relevance of little nooks and niches we have handy to Perth. A short drive or bus or train ride puts Perth people among these little pockets of peace and serenity, but few of us know or make use of them.

Some of these idyl-lic places have markers – names of pioneers or historical facts, little bits of colour to inform.

Top of my list takes you to the tumbling waterfalls and lovely green and shad-ed grounds of Harold Boas Gardens, almost mid-city on Wellington Street, West Perth.

Somehow the passing traffi c isn’t a noise factor, perhaps because the park is embraced by abundant foliage, nature at its best.

This lush place provides a pocket of beauty, eas-ily accessible to nearby at-dwellers and offi ce workers including those in Lotterywest House. Yet, although hordes of people trudge-by on weekdays, it never seems busy.

With its serene, little

lake and cascading wa-ter, it was originally known as Delhi Square but was re-named after prominent architect and City of Perth councillor Harold Boas when it was redeveloped in 1976.

Towering trees planted there in 1900 have been retained in all their magni -cence.

Another ideal picnic place – with enough space to run dogs and kids is Manners Hill Park with its classic pavilion, twixt Mos-man Park and Peppermint Grove.

A cow paddock un-til 1899 when the Crown bought it, the grounds have been converted into a wide, open, generously-grassed and manicured public re-serve. With a public play-ground across the road, along from Royal Fresh-water Bay Yacht Club, the reserve is well patronised but there’s plenty of room, lots of shade and generous bench seating. It is a pic-nickers’ paradise with the pavilion usually empty.

A marvel to look at for its simplicity, the 1903-built pavilion is one of the few remaining public pavilions in an open reserve. Its de-sign comes courtesy of the prominent architect Sir Joseph Talbot Hobbs. Prior to building the pavilion, this fantastic piece of public space amid some of WA’s wealthiest homes, was owned by engineer and politician Edward Keane and boasted a six-hole golf course.

For the grandest views of Perth and a perfect pic-nic place with room for kids and hounds to run around,

visit Bayview Park in Mos-man Park.

With its lofty, bird’s-eye views across the Swan River, distant sand spit, yacht clubs, sailing boats, ferries, canoes and birdlife, this place is uplifting.

Along from the lo-cal bowls club and long stretches of level lawn, is the lookout – now includ-ing plaques on a wall with names of long-term local families, including my own, who had Housing Com-mission homes nearby.

The cliff face plunges deeply to the river, savaged by prisoner work gangs in the 1800s, hacking out large limestone blocks used in some of Perth’s nest buildings including Government House and Old Perth Boys School.

Capstone was also loaded onto river barges, serving as gravel in the construction of St Georges Terrace. Quarrying went on there for 60 years.

Now the place is one of Perth’s gems for the pic-nicker, tourist and pam-pered privileged who perch up there.

Down by the riverside, along Mosman Bay, mas-sive trees provide gener-ous shade on a narrow, grassed strip that is wel-coming and easy on the eyes, with bobbing yachts and groups of ducks and not-too-shy swans. Don’t be surprised to see few people there.

From the yacht club and running along to one-time tearooms, this strip of prime picnicking prop-erty was once rich farm-ing ground for wheat, oats and rye. It was served only

by barges and boats until Johnson Parade was built by the Cottesloe Beach Roads Board in 1920.

This makes a perfect place for kiddie paddling and relaxing with easy ac-cess, nearby playground, toilets in the park and café a stone’s throw away.

When we were kids, our parents – or grandparents when they were up from Albany – would take us for Sunday drives up the coast to Marmion Marine Park.

We’d hop into our Hold-en or the grandparents’ Hillman Hunter and go to the end of the coast road. In the fties, this meant the stretch of coast ending for most at Trigg. Home to the last café on our suburban coast it was the turning point before heading home with ice cream for every-one.

That glorious strip of beach now accommodates coastal walkers, surfers, swimmers, sailors, divers, cyclists and skateboarders. Yet its little bays and pock-ets of beach between cliff s provide picturesque picnic places, perfect for paddling and well-protected for kids and oldies.

Extensive reefs keep out predators, providing safe swimming, paddling, oat-ing and skin-diving stretch-es with room for everyone.

The key is to come early, to nab a spot and beat the breezes, tucked between little cliff -lined coves around Mettams Pool.

It was named for World War I veteran, Frank Mat-tam, who loved the spot, except for dangerously-sharp limestone rock when walking there. Starting with

a crowbar and extending to explosives, dedicated Frank gradually eliminated sharp points of rock in a labor of love that took 35 years and was taken up by his children and

their children.What’s around the next

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Re ections of shing trips and the catch that never was

Time to discover some of Perth’s little picnic pockets

My mate Jim Blackie with a beautiful brown trout from Little Pine Lagoon on the rst afternoon....it turned out to be his only sh during a tough week

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MUCH as I like wine, I sometimes want to drink something to quench my thirst and particularly less alcoholic. Cider ts

the bill.The number of cider

makers has increased in recent years, particularly as growers have sought to nd a use for apples that while perfectly edible

are not pretty or uniform enough for supermarket shelves.

This month I tasted ci-der from two producers in the Perth Hills and one from the Swan Valley.

Funk Cider was es-tablished in 2016 by the Michael Brothers, in the Swan Valley. They also make beer, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks.

Their range of ciders in-cludes organic scrumpy, Bootsy Brett, bloody grapefruit, lemon cider, rosé cider, ginger, pineap-ple, passionfruit, and oak aged ciders. All products are unpasteurised and free from preservatives and concentrates.

Pineapple Cider is made with fresh pine-apples thrown into the brewing cider. It is sweet and delicately aromatic. Funk say it is especially made for the ladies and their partners. Alcohol 3.0 per cent. RRP $28 for four pack.

Sex Machine Cider is sweet cider made from Pink Lady apples and aged in French oak barrels. It has a smooth mouthfeel with a deep va-nilla avoured nish. Alco-hol 4.5 per cent RRP $18 for four pack.

Perth Cider is made from a blend of cold pressed granny smith and pink lady apples. The taste is semi-sweet with a clean and bold avour. Alcohol 4.8 per cent. RRP $18 for four pack.

Saison Cider is more traditional with a dry somewhat peppery a-vour and long nish. Al-cohol 5.2 per cent. RRP $18 for four pack.

Roleystone Cider is the brainchild of Adam Casotti, a third genera-tion orchardist from the Raeburn Orchards family and Ross Catalano. They set up the Roleystone Brewing Co inspired by an oversupply of apples and a desire to brew qual-ity natural cider.

The Original is made from cold pressed fruit from a blend of apple varieties with no added sugar. It is pale yellow in colour, displaying a strong fruit aroma with a refresh-ing clean avour and crisp nish. Alcohol 6.5 per cent. RRP $22 for four

pack from the cellar door.Gold’n Pear is a semi

sweet medium bodied cider with just a touch of yellow. It is made from apple and pear juice with no added sugar or con-centrate. It has strong aromas of apple and pear. The taste is clean and crisp with a touch of sweetness. Alcohol 6.5 per cent. RRP $22 for four pack.

Carmel Cider Com-pany is another long-es-tablished Hills fruit grower that has extended into cider. They make premi-um ciders from heritage cider apples, pink lady and Granny Smith. Their ciders are sold on 1.9L growlers at $30 to $35 with a discounted re ll.

Apple Keg Cider - a clean refreshing style. Medium sweetness 4.5 per cent.

Pear Cider - deli-cately crafted to highlight the mellow sweetness of pears. Winner of the award for the best Perry in Australia in 2017.

Apple - A crisp apple cider on the dryer side.

Apple and Raspberry - A triple fermented cider with a hint of berry. Clean on the palate.

Tree Ripened Apple - A late picked apple cider. With higher fermentable sugar and lower acid. Barrel fermented. Very smooth.

Heritage apple cider – Made from heritage ci-der apples grown on the property. A much more complex cider with lots of natural tannins. Winner of the award of Champion Cider at the 2019 Perth Royal Show.

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Clockwise from left; Funk Cider is produced in the Swan Valley by the Michael Brothers - Roleystone Cider is the brainchild of Adam Casotti - Carmel Cider Company’s Andrew Carruthers

by Vince Garreffa

YOU have never had corned beef and cabbage like this. I created this to feed corned beef to a

mate who hates the stuff . It worked and it’s delicious to boot. It would probably work on kids too. Good luck.Ingredients for 4• 500g julienne strips of cooked corned beef (ask your butcher or deli to slice it thicker if you don’t cook it yourself)• Half a savoy cabbage nely shredded• One large red onion nely shredded• 100g capers• 5 tablespoons

mashed potato• 4 medium skinned potatoes thinly sliced (short oval slices)• Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)• 250ml melted butter, plus some spare• West Australian Lake Salt • Freshly cracked black pepperMethod

Shred the cabbage nely, removing the occa-sional thick rib on the cab-bage leaves as they can be tough. Now saute your ne onion and cabbage in some EVOO until it’s nice and soft, then season to taste before adding the julienne strips of corned beef.

Gently mix together then add capers and mash potato. When mixed throughly take off the heat and set aside.

Melt 250g of salted but-

ter and add a pinch of salt and pepper, then dip each slice of potato before us-ing the slices in one of two versions:

First Method: create a layered lasagne eff ect by using an oven tray about 5-6cm deep and about 20cm wide and 30cm long. First put down a lay-er of potato slices that you dipped into the melted butter then spread a thin layer of your meat and vegetable mix then more dipped potato slices and so on. About four layers of potato and three of the meat mix should make it a great pasta free lasagne that you bake at 180°C for three quarters of an hour to an hour. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese just before the cooking time ends for a nice brown n-ish on top.

Second Method: dip your slices of potato in

Vince’s corned beef and cabbage igloo lasagne

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melted butter and place in a circle on a at bak-ing tray. Lay the slices as if they were bricks, each slice half on two under-slices. Build your potato slices until you have a round wall with a hol-low centre. Fill the centre with your meat and veg mix then cover the mix with potato slices like a roof enclosing an igloo without a door. Bake for three quarters to one hour at 180°C. In the last few minutes sprinkle a little cheese to help that brown nish.

Serve both methods hot at the table so your guests see the presenta-tion before you cut into it.

Buon Appetito! Ed’s note – we sampled

this dish and if you love corned beef like I do you will absolutely enjoy this innovative way to use the meat.

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THIS year’s harvest of apples and pears are now available in-store, signalling the launch of the new season of Western Australia’s fa-vourite fruit. In WA the apple and pear harvest occurs from March to June, commencing with the rst picked varieties Galaxy and Red Sensa-tion apples and Bartlett pears. Currently crops of Fuji, Kanzi, Pink Lady and Bravo are being picked… so lets get crunching!

This season, local growers are faced with

one of the most diffi cult growing seasons on re-cord and are calling on shopper’s support to buy fruit that may be hail marked, sun blemished or colour challenged. These visual characteris-tics don’t aff ect the pre-mium eating experience. You can make a diff er-ence by understanding skin blemishes don’t im-pact on avour.

Both apples and pears are extremely nutritious and should be an impor-tant food in our eating regime. Apples are rich in antioxidants and the sol-uble bre pectin, which

are both known for their heart protective capa-bilities. Dietary bre aids in reducing the risk of some cancers and helps to control blood sugar levels, which is important in diabetes suff erers. In-terestingly, pears are one of only two food products that are non-allergenic, making them ideal for introducing solids to ba-bies and for people on elimination diets.An apple a day keeps

the doctor away Research carried out

by the University of West-ern Australia (UWA) and Edith Cowan University

(ECU) has shown the consumption of apples has a direct impact on human health by improv-ing cardiovascular health.

The science behind how apples assist hu-man health validates the health bene ts of apples long advocated by the saying: “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”.

Apples are high in a-vonoids (widely known as antioxidants), which are concentrated in the skin rather than the esh of apples so eat the whole fruit to obtain the health bene ts, says Dr Cath-erine Bondonno who

worked on the study. The local apple study

screened the avonoid content of more than 100 varieties of apples in Western Australia. It identi ed apples that are especially high in a-vonoids, including Pink Lady and Bravo-branded apples.

Flavonoids work by increasing a molecule that is produced in blood vessels and help regulate blood pressure and ow.

Clinical trials demon-strated the positive eff ect of Pink Lady apple con-sumption on cardiovas-cular health – one study

demonstrated improved blood vessel function within hours of eating an apple and the second trial showed these eff ects are sustained following four weeks of daily intake by people at risk of cardio-vascular disease.

So tuck into some brightly coloured local ap-ples and enjoy them skin-on to maximise the health bene ts. To increase your consumption of fresh ap-ples, simply add to your daily breakfast cereal, use as a garnish on your salad or eat an apple or pear as an in-between meal snack – you can spice

things up by trying a dif-ferent variety each day.

Whilst the weather is warm, store apples and pears in the fridge to en-sure they keep that fresh-ly picked crunch.

Fresh is best with WA apples and pears, yet they are just as delicious cooked in savoury and sweet dishes. Generally, the sweeter the fruit, the better it will perform in a cooked recipe. Grab an apple and pear today and enjoy the recipes below.

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COMBINE all ingredients together except egg whites. Mix until well combined. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into batter. To make pikelets, brush the base of a pan with oil. Spoon about two tablespoons of batter into pan to make individu-al-sized servings. Allow to cook until golden on both sides. Continue until all the batter has been used. Serve warm with natural yogurt and fresh fruit.

PREHEAT the oven to 180°C and line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper. Toss the apple quar-ters in the lemon juice. Combine the lemon zest, chopped macadamia nuts and coconut in a bowl.

Combine the egg and sugar in another bowl and dip the apple quarters into the mixture. Allow the excess egg to drip off , then roll the apple quar-ters in the coconut mixture. Place on baking tray and bake for 20 – 25 minutes or until the apples are cooked and golden.

Ingredients2 slices sour dough bread½ ripe avocado1 ripe Bartlett pears, quartered, cored and sliced½ cup baby rocket leaves, washed25g shaved parmesanfreshly ground black pepperlemon wedges, to serveLIGHTLY toast the sour dough bread if desired. Roughly mash avocado onto each slice and sea-son with a pinch of salt. Top with slices of pear, rocket leaves and shaved parmesan. Grind over black pepper and serve with lemon wedges.

Apple ricotta pikeletsPreparation: 10 minutes; cooking: 25 minutes; serves: 4

Coconut baked apple wedges

Pear, avocado and rocket open sandwiches

Ingredients1 cup ricotta cheese1 cup grated Royal Gala apples ½ cup white our¼ cup wholemeal our1 tablespoon honey1 teaspoon lemon juice1 tablespoon chopped pecans½ teaspoon cinnamonsprinkle of nutmeg 4 eggs, separatednatural yogurt and fresh fruit, to serve

Ingredients4 apples, quartered and cored1 lemon, zest and juice3 tablespoon maca-damia nuts, nely chopped¾ cup shredded coconut1 egg, lightly beaten2 teaspoon sugar

Preparation: 10 minutes; serves: 1

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Pears: Savour the avours of autumn with fresh new season pears. Take your pick of varieties as the season unfolds – Bartlets, Packhams and creamy buttery avoured Beurre Bosc, with an attractive russeted skin and exceptional eating qualities, they’re lovely eaten crisp, nely sliced and chilled – perfect for a fruit platter or to accompany cheeses. When select-ing, don’t be too concerned about a blemish-free pear; most markings are made by branches and leaves brush-ing against the immature pears when still on the tree, however avoid those with actual cuts or bruising. Buy pears at various stages of ripening accord-ing to when you’re going to eat then and store on the bench or the fridge accordingly.Fuji apples: Look out for this popular apple right now and you’ll be reward-ed with that lovely straight-from-the-orchard taste. Available in a variety of sizes, the Fuji has a cream toned esh and a delicious sweet and spicy a-

vour – perfect for eating and cooking. The smaller apples are great for lunch-boxes, being the ideal size for little hands, and you can serve the larger ones sliced with cheese and good bread to make a very satisfying lunch. Fuji apples also store very well. Grab a bag, pop them in the fridge and have them on hand to munch all week long.Limes: Sensational fresh WA limes are coming in from Gingin, bringing their heady scent and unmistakable zingy avour. They add a highly per-fumed, acidic kick to all manner of dishes; beautiful squeezed over trout or salmon, essential to nish off a co-conut based curry or south east Asian-style broth and lovely in a creamy lime curd tart. When selecting, look out for the blue sticker that denotes WA origin and check for brightly coloured smooth skin. Keep in mind that the Tahitian, the variety most commonly seen in Australia, doesn’t have to be completely green to be ripe. Har-vested green, they turn yellow as they sweeten and mature. Small areas of brown colouring on the Tahitian won’t aff ect the avour, but make sure they give a tiny bit when squeezed.That’s a good indicator of juiciness.Portobello mushrooms: Also re-ferred to as Swiss Browns, these mushrooms have a longer growing cycle which results in a hearty meaty texture and rich avour. Buy the size appropriate for the use – button for salad, cups for stuffi ng, ats for frying and grilling. A quick brush with oil is all that’s needed before grilling; avour the oil with fresh herbs, chilli or garlic if you wish. Portobellos are ideal for giv-ing a real mushroomy kick to soups, roasted vegetables and stuffi ng. Keep refrigerated in a paper bag for seven to 10 days. Wipe with damp paper towels – no need to wash or peel as they will absorb water and turn mushy when you cook them.

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WE so enjoy hearing from our readers and this month Lyn Price has shared her recipe for a de-licious banana cake.

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nana Cake recipe now for over 40 years!

“I have given it to friends over the years who say they cannot make a banana bake like mine but after they use this the recipe they say they can.

“I hope that many more people will have success with my recipe.”

Send us in your fa-vourite sweet or savoury recipe and if you can add a brief paragraph about where you found this recipe or if it was handed down from a family mem-ber, all the better.

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by Don Hancey, Chef and WA Food Ambassador

Ingredients for four:12 WA Shark Bay prawn cutlets, deveined200g Far West WA scallop meat2kg de-bearded WA mussels200g rm esh sh: Cone Bay Barramundi, Gold Band Snapper or Harpuka cut into chunks6 ripe tomatoes diced1 red onion sliced2 medium heat chillies sliced seeds and all3 cloves garlic chopped1 lemon cut into quarters

good splash (glass) of WA Great Southern Riesling parsley and coriander for garnish Method:ADD onion, garlic, chillies and olive oil to a large heavy based saucepan. Cook on me-dium heat for a couple of minutes to bring out the avours. Add in tomatoes and the Riesling, simmer for another couple of minutes. Then add in mussels, prawns and sh. Put lid on pan and cook for two min-utes.

Add scallops and lemon, toss all ingre-dients in pan, replace lid and cook until mussels have opened... about another

two minutes.To serve toss through some coriander or

parsley leaves, serve on a large white plat-ter or bowl.Tips• Be careful not to overcook the seafood. It is always best to slightly undercook sh.• No need to add salt in this recipe as the mus-sels have enough natural salt from the sea wa-ter.• Use fresh herbs from your garden like pars-ley and coriander.

Wine to accompany the hotpot should be a fabulous Great Southern zesty citrusy Riesling like Howard Park or Three Drops.

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Share your recipes...Have a Go News’ reader recipe - Lyn Price’s banana cake

Ingredients400g self raising our250g butter2 cups sugar (I use raw sugar but it does not matter if you use white sugar)4 eggs4 mashed ripe bananas2 level teaspoons of carb soda6 tablespoons of warm milk

Optional add a cup of coco-nut and some walnut pieces to the mixture. If you do not have enough bananas, or want to vary the cakes a bit, you can use grat-ed apple or crushed and drained pineapple pieces to substitute half of the bananas.Method

Mash bananas in a small bowl. Beat eggs in another small bowl.

Cream butter and sugar in a small bowl.

Put creamed butter and sugar mixture into a larger bowl and add beaten eggs. Mix well and then add mashed bananas, followed by warm milk.

Fold in the our and add the carb soda.

To decorate the cake you can add whole walnut pieces to top before putting into oven.

Bake in preheated oven 180C for about 45 minutes. Test with metal skewer.

Cool on cake rack.This mixture makes two large

loaf/bar size cakes or is also suit-able for muffi ns.

It is nice plain or with a little but-ter spread on it.

Lyn Price’s favourite banana cake

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Ingredients1 teaspoons oil1 onion, sliced 600g mushrooms, sliced½ tablespoon fresh thymeRind and juice of 1 lemon1 litre vegetable or chicken stock¼ cup creamPLACE oil in a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and thyme. Cook, stirring often, for ve minutes or until soft and golden.

Add the mushrooms. Cook, stirring, for ve minutes or until mushrooms are tender. Add lemon juice and rind. Add the stock. Bring to the boil then simmer ve minutes. Remove from the heat. Blend or process soup, in batches, to your desired consistency. Stir in the cream. Return to medium-low heat. Cook, stirring, until hot. Sea-son with salt and pepper to taste.

THIS delicious soup thickens on stand-ing, add extra stock if necessary. For extra heat, drizzle soup with sriracha hot chilli sauce.1½ tbsp olive oil100g sliced pancetta, chopped1 brown onion, nely chopped2 celery stalks, sliced 2 garlic cloves, chopped2 long red chillies, deseeded and chopped700g fresh chestnuts or 500g cooked and peeled chestnuts750g peeled and chopped butternut pumpkin5 cups chicken stock Reduced fat sour cream and extra sliced long red chilli, to serve

To roast chestnuts

Preheat oven to 200°C (180°C fan-forced)

Cut a shallow cross into the at side of each chestnut shell. Place prepared chest-nuts onto a baking tray and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the shells split open.

Once cooked, remove chestnuts from the heat and wrap in a clean tea towel for ve minutes. While chestnuts are still warm, quickly peel off the outer brown shell and remove the papery thin skin un-derneath.

To make the soup:Heat two teaspoons of oil in a large

saucepan over medium-high heat. Add pancetta and cook, stirring often, for three minutes or until crispy. Transfer to a plate. Set aside.

Heat the remaining one tablespoon of oil in the pan over medium heat. Add on-ion, celery, garlic and chillies and cook, stirring often, for four to ve minutes until softened.

Add chestnuts and pumpkin and cook, stirring occasionally, for ve minutes. Stir in stock and three-quarters of the pancetta. Cover and bring to the boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 20-25 minutes or until pumpkin and chest-nuts are tender.

Puree soup with a stick blender until smooth. Season to taste. Cover and bring to the boil over medium heat. Ladle soup into serving bowls. Top each with a dollop of sour cream, the remaining pancetta and extra sliced red chilli and serve.

Spicy chestnut, pumpkin and pancetta soup

Prep: 20 mins + chestnut prep timeCooking: 40 mins Serves: 4

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CHANGING COMMUNITIES. CHANGING LIVES.

by Lee Tate

HORDES of heroes emerge when times are tough, during pandemics, bush- res and other disasters.

Special characters also emerge for major happen-ings in education, business, arts and sports. Heroes of a diff erent kind, perhaps, but with something in common: they are all sel ess volun-teers.

Without them happily stepping into the breach, the world wouldn’t function as it does. Volunteers are the salt of the earth.

Behind the scenes in many elds, invariably, there are men, women and children pitching-in their time, eff ort and faith – and sometimes money – be-cause they choose to. They believe it’s right.

Volunteers help form the backbones of our hospitals, health and medical sys-tems, emergency rescue, community support and surf lifesaving.

The world’s elite sporting events from the Olympics to tennis, golf, motor rac-ing and football champion-ships, are multi-billion-dollar operations. But all have armies of people who queue to volunteer behind the scenes: crowd-con-trol, refreshments, public relations, goodwill, securi-ty, preparation and clean-ing-up.

Every day, food from charitable organisations ows to the needy, relying on volunteers, handing out sustenance with cheer and goodwill.

School children have been known to volunteer to clean-up the playground or help with preparations for a special visitor, or looking after a needy student.

Older people who vol-unteer often say how their unpaid duties give them greater pleasure and reward than all their paid work did.

Volunteering can improve physical and mental health, counteracting stress and anxiety.

Self-con dence can bring a sense of accom-plishment, according to veteran volunteers who vouch for spin-off s: devel-oping new skills, getting a healthier body and gaining

more experience.Many of us rst tasted

volunteering from cubs, scouts and guides – if not from primary school teach-ers calling for volunteers to step forward.

Volunteering has been around since the year dot, but now is a greatly organ-ised and necessary part of most societies.

My retired mate off ered his labours at a Perth hospi-tal and found himself greatly enjoying a chauff eur’s role. He ferries patients and dis-abled visitors around the wards and corridors in a golf buggy a couple of days a week.

Countless women cher-ish their years volunteering at charity shops and com-munity outlets.

Thousands of us have volunteered for duties at Rotary, Lions and Probus – plus untold other commu-nity organisations – where comradeship really comes to the fore and lifelong friendships are forged.

Many of us were involved in successful fundraisers where the money went to good causes, but we mostly remember the fun and mateship in designing, preparing and implement-ing the various schemes together.

These days, govern-ments – federal, state and local – all have organised volunteering groups and activities (check their web-sites). Not every volunteer-ing organisation will appeal to everyone: sometimes the people don’t ‘click’ that’s human nature.

So we try another one. The good thing about vol-unteering is choice: You decide the organisation, you decide (with exibility where possible) the hours and you decide when it’s time to quit.

The old adage, to give is better than to receive, is true of volunteering.

Volunteering WA, WA’s peak body for volunteering, says: “Volunteers contribute $39 billion to WA’s economy each year, more value than many other major indus-tries.”

Its vision is for every Western Australian to en-joy a valued volunteering experience that enriches

the State, through leading advancing and celebrating volunteering in WA.

Volunteering brings out many gems like this one regarding ve-year-old Mia Rodriguez who has Down’s Syndrome.

The Port Kennedy Prima-ry School student had been visiting Rockingham’s aged care facility Baptistcare Gracehaven for two years and became upset to hear visitors had been stopped due to Covid-19 protection measures.

So, she spent hours painstakingly drawing 98 individual rainbows – one for each resident – ac-companied by an uplifting, hand-written message.

Rainbows are a symbol of hope during the global Covid-19 pandemic. World-

wide, children displayed pictures of rainbows in their windows to spread happi-ness.

“Mia’s beautiful gesture let the Baptistcare Grace-haven seniors know she was thinking of them even though she is currently un-able to visit them in person. It brought a smile to the face of every recipient,” says our informant.

“It was also a fun and creative project for the Year 1 student who is now home schooling due to Covid-19.”

Baptistcare CEO, Russell Bricknell, said he has been inspired by children like Mia who have been reach-ing out to residents across Baptistcare’s facilities.

“We have many inter-generational and volunteer activities where children of

all ages connect with el-derly residents and genuine friendships are formed.

“While there’s no doubt residents are currently missing the time they nor-mally get to spend with their young visitors, I know the children too miss the spe-cial interactions,” he said.

Baptistcare Gracehav-en residents and staff are regular supporters of Mia’s fundraising eff orts for Tele-thon and Down’s Syndrome Australia.

To keep residents feeling cared for and connected, Baptistcare began devel-oping an interactive virtual volunteering program and now says: “Online angels are needed to help care for Perth seniors.”

“There has never been a better time for people to

keep busy by helping oth-ers – without even leaving their loungerooms.”

They have been de-scribed as a new breed of volunteer, for virtual giving.

These are volunteers who are tech-savvy, with their own smart devices or camera phones and who are con dent using plat-forms like Skype, Facetime and Zoom.

Anyone aged 18-65, who is a great listener and loves talking with seniors is wel-come, with online orienta-tion and training provided. Hours are exible: Volun-teers generally spend half an hour, twice a week, with residents.

Visits, long chats, book reading, quizzes and games will take place via technology rather than in

person. Russell said isolation

and loneliness were the biggest concerns when the whole community is having to stay away from aged care facilities.

“Virtual volunteers will make the world of diff er-ence to not only our res-idents, but to our team members,” he said.

For more information: visit www.baptistcare.com.au and www.volunteering wa.org.au


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Thank You City of Perth VolunteersAs such, the City of Perthwould like to thank thevolunteers for their time,energy and incrediblecommitment in 2020.For further information or to volunteer, contact [email protected]

The City of Perth volunteers play an integral role inproviding much needed services to the iCity Kiosk,Citiplace CommunityCentre and the Access andInclusion Advisory Group.The volunteer team areinvaluable to the City ofPerth, its visitors and thelocal community.

Thank you Volunteers!

At the City of Stirling, we highly value our volunteers!We currently have more than 500 active volunteers in over 50 roles within community services. These roles are diverse and evolving to meet the community’s needs. Volunteers enhance and extend programs that include tree planting, friendship groups, conversational English and youth advocates.

We recognise the unique skills, experiences and passion that volunteers bring to our organisation. They are a vital link in providing essential services for people living in our community.

In honour of National Volunteers Week, we would like to thank these individuals who contribute their time and skills volunteering and make a meaningful contribution to the lives of many.

Thank you City of Stirling volunteers!

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CHANGING COMMUNITIES. CHANGING LIVES.

CONNECTION and so-cialisation are more im-portant than ever during this pandemic. Aged care providers have had to get creative to ensure residents con-

tinue to feel connected, supported and part of the local community. Volunteers are a vital link for maintaining this connection.

In light of the

COVID-19 pandemic, Regis made the diffi cult decision to implement stringent access con-trols which limit visitors. This has meant family and volunteers are cur-

rently unable to enter Regis homes except under exceptional cir-cumstances.

The passionate team has modi ed programs to ensure residents remain supported, en-tertained and social while staying safe. This includes modi ed ‘vir-tual’ intergenerational programs, pen pal pro-grams and digital visits.

Regis residents love their volunteer’s ded-ication, commitment and innovation. They actively make regu-lar phone and video calls to residents and homes have received a large number of cards, letters, and ‘bags of virtual hugs’ (coloured in hands which hug the residents), emails, phone calls and video calls. These bring extra happiness to both resi-dents and employees.

They also have a pro-gram ‘Window of Con-nection’ which allows visitors to book a time to come to see a resi-dent and chat through the glass window. This has been a great suc-cess and has brought a lot of comfort to those involved.

Regis homes have also worked to sup-port volunteers, in-cluding dropping off baskets of supplies including home made meals, soups, veggies and owers to those who need a little extra support and love.

While COVID-19 may have forced them to pause visitation for now, volunteers and residents are ensuring that valuable connec-tion remains as much of a priority as ever.

Maintaining valuable connections during a crisis


GRANDPARENTS look-ing for an entertaining book as a gift for their grandchildren might be interested in award-win-ning Maylands author Norman Jorgensen who was recently inducted into the WA Young Read-ers Book Awards Hall of Fame.

At their annual general meeting in February, the

WA Young Readers Book Award celebrated their 40th anniversary – a sig-ni cant achievement for a volunteer-run group – by promoting their recom-mended reading lists for 2020. They also present-ed awards from their 2019 program and inducted Norman Jorgensen, and Andy Griffi ths into the Hall of Fame.

Sixty something Nor-man, who was born in

Broome, started writing stories in primary school and had a story about his school read on the ABC Radio Argonauts Club. But it took many years for his rst picture book, In Flanders Fields, to be published.

Beautifully illustrated by Brian Henderson-Le-ver, the story is set in World War I and tells of a homesick soldier who risks his life to rescue

a robin caught in the barbed wire of no-man’s-land. It won the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture Book of the Year award in 2003, the rst of many awards and the rst of a dozen books Norman has creat-ed for children and young people.

Norman fell in love with books at an early age and has spent almost all his life working in the book trade surrounded by the works of authors and il-lustrators he admires. He developed a love of histo-ry from reading historical novels, as well as from watching old Hollywood movies, and these in u-ences are often re ected in his own work.

The eldest of four brothers, he has lived in country towns through-out WA. He now lives in a 100-year-old house with

his wife, also a children’s book fan, and his col-lection of old books and movies.

Norman has presented sessions for the City of Bayswater libraries dur-ing CBCA Book Week and as part of school holiday programs over many years. He is in de-mand as a visiting author for schools and libraries in the Perth area.

He describes himself as still a 12-year-old boy at heart and is especially keen to engage reluctant readers and charm them with his story telling skills.

His book, Smugglers Curse written in classic pirate style, was pub-lished in 2016 and is an exciting, action-packed adventure set in Broome, Fremantle, Albany and South-East Asia in the nal years of the 19th century.

More information about Norman and his books can be found at normanjorgensen.com.au/

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THE COVID-19 pandem-ic has forced many peo-ple into self-isolation and

social (physical) distanc-ing, resulting in changes in behavioural patterns and day-to-day function-ing. This will often have consequences for their mental well-being says Dr Sandro Galea of the Bos-ton (US) school of public health.

He says it is necessary to plan for the mental con-sequences of loneliness as populations isolate and to develop ways to intervene. It is also critical to devise mechanisms to prevent this resulting in domestic violence and child abuse.

To monitor how the social restrictions aff ects people, Swinburne Uni-versity of Technology re-searchers have launched a global survey that will monitor people’s health and wellbeing.

“Humans are social be-ings who rely on connec-tions with other people to successfully thrive in the

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Professor Green eld says resources and strate-gies are available to main-tain social connection and physical activity for homebound older adults while still practicing social distancing.

She says many older adults can access tools on the internet to connect with others.

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that internet use is more prevalent among adults in younger age groups, re-search indicates that, over the past two decades, in-ternet use among adults ages 65 and older has in-creased dramatically.”

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Older adults can use online resources to facili-tate exercise and physical activity within their homes. For example in Perth the Arthritis Foundation is off ering Tai Chi classes using Zoom, while Edith Cowan University has exercise videos available free of charge over the Internet. These are also available on the Have a Go News website www.haveagonews.com.au.

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FOR 97-year-old Douglas Whitworth who lives at Baptistcare David Butt eld Centre Residential Care in Gwelup, ANZAC Day holds special signi cance.

It’s the day the former Australian Infantry Forc-es (AIF) private, who served in World War II in New Guinea defending the city of Lae, remembers his time in service and his fallen mates who fought so bravely.

Despite the current Covid-19 restrictions across Australia’s aged care homes, the Baptistcare team made sure Douglas was able to uphold his ANZAC tradition with a laying of a wreath at the foot of the facility’s agpole proudly ying the Australian Na-tional Flag.

While the ceremony was a quiet aff air it was an important acknowledgement for the serviceman who had enlisted as an 18-year-old in 1941, some-thing he needed his parents’ permission to do as he was not yet 21.

He joined as a ‘Choco’ National Serviceman before being transferred to the AIF as a signalman responsible for keeping communication lines open by laying and maintaining long cable wires, while most importantly keeping his head down.

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A REPORT by The Aus-tralian Academy of Tech-nology and Engineering (ATSE) funded by the Aus-tralian Research Council, sets out the way forward to bring our health system into the 21st century.

Launching the report, Professor Hugh Brad-low, President of ATSE, stressed the need for bet-ter use of telehealth.

“At present telehealth is

only widely applied in psy-chiatry, but it has the po-tential for much wider use.

“Smart wearable devic-es on patients at home re-duces risk, avoids spread-ing infections and with the aid of arti cial Intelligence, helps us to detect asymp-tomatic conditions.

“Covid-19 is leading to rapid adoption, but managing the pandemic would have been better if these innovations had already been in place,”

he said.The report says the

pandemic has highlighted de ciencies in the Austra-lia health care system. It may be one of the best in the world, but it could be better.

Health care is still al-most entirely focused on cure, rather than preven-tion; it still relies on face-to-face consultations and length waits in GP clinics or hospital emergency rooms.

Our ageing population brings with it increasing levels of chronic illness and more demands for health and medical inter-ventions. To this is added emerging diseases, such as coronaviruses, driven by globalisation and cli-mate change.

The gap between the current health system and its technology-enabled potential creates an enor-mous opportunity for im-provement.

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in business, government and research to nd the best solutions available through digital and data technologies, precision medicine and integrated care through technolo-gy. The result is a vision of a high performing, technology-supported, patient-centred, preven-tion-focused healthcare system.

This new prescription for healthcare – with a focus on prevention and wellness, enabled by technology – does away with paper les, in favour of secure electronic health records.

Health professionals will be able to easily share patient information, and analysis of big (but ano-nymised) data will enable accurate monitoring and prediction of population health trends. This will enable governments to act early and invest in large-scale preventative measures for emerging

lifestyle and infectious disease.

Genetic testing and screening will become af-fordable and support per-sonalised medicine, with prevention and treatment targeted to individual’s needs.

Information gathered through smart phones and wearable devices will provide doctors with a real-time picture of an individual’s health – and provide consultations and prescribe treatments through phone and video.

Remote consultation will also open up better treatment options for peo-ple who live remotely or who are unable to leave home safely, and have limited access to medical specialists.

There are some mis-givings amongst patients and GPs regarding tele-health consultations. However researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachu-

setts General Hospital in the US found over 80 per cent of telehealth con-sultations eff ectively re-placed face to face visits overall, ranging from 62 percent in dermatology to 93 per cent in psychiatry.

To achieve its vision, ATSE has made four rec-ommendations to help policy-makers, business-es and researchers accel-erate positive change. 1. Switch to electronic health records as soon as possible. Not just My Health Record but a comprehensive record of symptoms and treatment over a lifetime.2. Use of telehealth and mobile technology to im-prove access to health-care, saving patient and doctors’ time and elimi-nating the need for trans-port to clinics in most cases. At-risk people can be diagnosed, treatment plans devised, and appro-priate support arranged – all without having to leave

their homes. Smart devices will auto-matically monitor patients’ temperature or oxygen levels, and help prioritise medical care to those who need it most.3. Training for health care workers in the essential skills to use new digital technologies; 4. Government support for translating medical research and preparing it to get out to where it’s needed - patients.

The report says de-spite a thriving medical research sector, Australia struggles to get our world-class medical research readied for use in every day health care.


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DID you know that your heart beats about 100,000 times a day? That’s about 35 million times each year.

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OLDER people are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than younger ones, so many are self-isolat-ing. But there is more to self-isolation than ar-ranging a supply of food and toilet paper.

Edith Cowan Univer-sity (ECU) professor Ken Nosaka is an exercise science expert special-ising in older people. He says it is important to stay active.

“Older people in par-ticular are at risk of phys-ical decline, and a lack of regular exercise could lead to a litany of prob-lems including reduced muscle strength, coordi-

nation, balance, exibil-ity and mobility, and de-creased cardiovascular and respiratory functions, all of which can make people more susceptible to ill health,” he says.

“The home could be an ideal place for exer-cises to make all people, including older people, healthier and tter and improve immune func-tion to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection. Some quick and easy ex-ercises can be done from the comfort of home re-quiring no equipment and just a bit of motiva-tion.

Professor Ken Nosaka has created two quick and simple exercise pro-

grams both seniors and younger people can do at home, some of them while sitting in a chair. These have been pub-lished on YouTube and are available through the Have a Go News web-site.

Writing in The Con-versation, Professor Em-manuel Stamatakis of the University of Sydney and co-authors advised people in isolation to take regular breaks from their computer, tablet, or smartphone every 20 to 30 minutes. Walk around the house, take some fresh air on the balcony, in the garden or yard, or play with your dog for a few moments.

They said climbing stairs is an extreme-ly time-effi cient way to maintain tness. If you live in an apartment, avoid lift encounters with other self-isolating neigh-bours by using the stair-case for any necessary outdoor journeys.

They say home based strength exercises that utilise your own body-weight – such as press-ups, sit-ups and planks – are as important as aer-obic exercise. Aim for at least couple of sessions per week of two to four sets of eight to 15 repe-titions with a two minute rest between sets.

Listening to music and dancing at home is

stress-releasing. Danc-ing is an excellent way to protect the heart and maintain tness as it can reach moderate and vigorous intensity. It also has mental health bene- ts to help us cope with the coronavirus-imposed solitude.

Social-distancing is a good opportunity to bond more with children and dogs. Let your pets take you away from that screen for some exercise play.

The end goal during self-isolation is to prevent long term physical and mental health damage by sitting less, moving as often as possible, and maintaining tness by huffi ng and puffi ng a few times a day.

Cancer patients espe-cially need to exercise at home. ECU professor Rob Newton says: “It is absolutely critical that cancer patients exercise on most if not every day to maintain their health, help ght the disease and manage treatment side-eff ects.

“However, research in-dicates the incidence and severity of COVID-19 is higher in cancer patients, particularly those that are older. Patients urgently need home-based exer-cise programs developed to support them in self isolation.”

Professor Nosaka said

Staying active while isolating - here’s a range of exercises to maintain tness

Professor Ken Nosaka demonstrates two chair exercises. Move legs as if walking and stomp; knee-high steps raise knee and thigh higher at each step.

motivation to exercise was a problem. People who attended a club or gym were motivated but 75 per cent of people did not continue at home.

Normal work around the house, such as gar-dening or cutting up veg-etables while standing up counted as exercise. It was also important to stand up every ten min-utes or so when sitting and sit down very slowly.

“This exercise has enabled a 95-year-old woman in my research

group to regain the ability to stand and sit unaided,” he said.

Whatever your age or state of health it is im-portant to exercise and even a little exercise is better than none.

This article is support-ed by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas.


For the most up to date information about the global pandemic visit the Western Australian Department of Health website at healthywa.wa.gov.au/coronavirus or contact them on the Coronavirus Health Information Line on 1326 843 at any time. You can also visit the Australian Government Health Department website at www.health.gov.au

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THIS month nothing says: “I Love you” like a chrysanthemum on Mother’s Day. Whether you are giving or receiv-ing one as a gift, you are sure to be taken with their beauty and ele-gance. The chrysanthe-mum originated in China before 500BC and has since been bred to be-come one of the most popular and recognised owers in the world.

The name chrysan-themum means ‘gold ower’ and refers to the species C. coronarium and C. segetum, both of which have yellow ow-ers.

Initial breeding in Chi-na later spread to Japan at the end of the fourth century. A few varieties were grown in Holland as early as 1689, arriving in the United Kingdom in 1764. New chrysan-themum cultivars were introduced from the East by famed plant hunter Robert Fortune around the mid 1800s and French and Amer-ican growers in the late 1800s.

Due to constant se-lection or hybridisation over many centuries, the range of ower types and forms today is astounding. Chrysan-themum are classi ed by the oral charac-

teristics of the plant. These groups include Exhibition, Incurved, Re exed, Intermedi-ate, Anemone, Singles, Pompons, Sprays, Spi-ders, Spoons and Quills, Charms, Cascades, and Unclassi ed. With so much variety to choose from, even the most dis-cerning gardener should nd some which are in-teresting. Flower colours include white, yellow, bronze, pink, purple and red variations.

Most Chrysanthe-mums naturally ower in mid to late autumn as their owering is ini-tiated by the shorter day length. Growers often mimic this pattern by blacking out their tun-nels and glasshouses for at least 14 hours per day, so that the plants will ower at other times during the year.

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The WA Chrysanthe-mum Society’s annual ower show which is usually held in early May was cancelled this year due to the Covid-19 restrictions, but that shouldn’t stop you from getting your x of these elegant and luxurious blooms. Check them out on the website www.chrysanthemumwa.com/ or Facebook page and be inspired to grow some of your own.

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IT’S BEEN an interesting time being in self-isola-tion for the last month and for some even lon-ger.

For some, like my parents who live on ve acres in the country, nothing is really diff erent apart from the border re-strictions.

I do feel that it takes a certain mindset to em-brace what needs to be done in order to look after ourselves and others.

Not being able to see loved ones and to feel their hugs would have to be the hardest part.

It’s one thing to be and live alone but I know for some the enforced iso-lation has only served to highlight the loneliness.

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For those of you want-ing to create an instant cosy inside, it’s easy. It’s all about creating layers and choosing some co-lour that applies a sense of rich colour and depth into a room.

For the bedroom be generous and have plen-ty of pillows for comfort. A throw and cushions in order to lie back for a lazy afternoon of reading or a snooze.

Make a cup of tea, sit down in your lovely or-

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Now is the perfect time to create a story board of ideas which you would like to use in your home. If you need some help with this don’t hesitate to con-tact me. Cut out ideas from magazines, print things off the computer and put together some of the things you would like to see in your home.

Or write lists of the books or movies you’d love to read and see and make a list of the recipes you would like to cook. Now that we can have friends and family over for dinner it’s the per-fect opportunity to cook something entirely new. Let’s learn something, volunteer some time to something, share some-thing, but at the very least, do something to stay inspired.

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In 2018, Roy and Joanne opened their family home to the public as part of Sustainable House Day, and Roy used the occasion to do some initial testing of the market for his proposed development next door.

“All the yers I had printed disappeared, I had 30 phone calls and had coff ee with 20 people – 16 single people and two cou-ples, all of whom were over 60. All the feedback I received men-

tioned the same four priorities; single storey, sustainability, security and no strata, in the same order.”

So that is what Roy built – three innovative, architect-designed single-storey homes that off er inbuilt sustainability, security and independence, in a friendly established community.

“Independent living and ageing in place, where the services and assistance can come to you, appears to be the aspiration for most of the retirees, or future retirees, I have spoken to.

“After discovering that there is a shortage of this kind of accom-modation, we’ve decided to move into one of the three homes ourselves and remain in our community.

“So we nally have a retirement plan and a pretty good idea of what our future will look like.”

Roy is passionate about the topic and about his project. The remaining two homes – at 90 Hope Street, White Gum Val-

ley are currently on the market. For more information call Roy on 0434 999 326 or see advertisement on page 29.

KARINGAL Green Health and Aged Care Commu-nity opened in High Wy-combe on 4 May.

This is a new concept in aged care and the

home is a vision realised for Hall and Prior CEO, Graeme Prior. The plans have been over a de-cade in the making.

The thoughtfully de-signed connected com-munity off ers generously appointed, modern ac-commodation designed to suit the speci c needs of residents.

It off ers beautiful liv-ing and garden spaces; a wellness centre, heat-ed hydrotherapy pool, gymnasium, café and cinema; an on-site al-lied and primary health clinic; and a dedicated research, training and education centre.

Karingal Green ex-ecutive director Hayley Crespi said the 160-bed

home will cater for a range of residents.

“We off er rooms that cater to all care needs and we also have com-panion rooms so cou-ples can stay living to-gether which we believe is vitally important in aged care,” Hayley said.

“Karingal Green can cater to every individu-al’s needs; our ‘whole of person’ model of care means we support our residents’ needs men-tally, physically and spir-itually.”

Karingal Green pro-vides a nurturing and supportive environment with excellence in care at the core of every de-cision made.

“Care need is diff erent

for everyone,” Hayley added. “So we spend time getting to know you and what is right for you. We want you to feel safe and comfortable know-ing you are getting the care that you deserve.”

Karingal Green of-fers care on permanent, respite or day respite basis as well as Par-kinson’s and dementia care and there is also a purpose-built area for individuals under 65 that have high level 24/7 care needs.

Relationship manager Tess Woodford is avail-able for private tours of Karingal Green, to orga-nise please contact 1300 096 988 or enquiry@kar ingalgreen.com.au.

AS THE Coronavirus (COVID-19) causes economic upheaval, what does this mean for your retirement nances?

Here are ve ways your retirement fund can weather the storm:

Deeming rates are going down. If you have a large superannuation balance, you may qualify for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. The card gives self-funded retirees the same bene ts as an Age Pensioner - which could be worth up to $2500 per year. You could also re-ceive a $200 Energy rebate and a $250 Regional Seniors Travel Card. Check for eligibility

You can boost your fortnightly Aged Pension via the Pension Loan Scheme.

Sage Financial Group can show you how.Changes to the market value of your

investments could make you eligible for higher Age Pension. As a part pensioner, for every $1,000 asset change, you could receive an additional $78 per year in age pension.

Adviser-managed portfolios will seize opportunities. At times like this, you will be thankful of having one of Sage’s retire-ment specialists looking after your invest-ment strategy and off ering non-biased expertise on the economic market. This should mean your fund will only be mildly aff ected.

If you receive a superannuation income stream, the government has announced the minimum amount you need to draw has been halved for this and the next -nancial year. This could help reduce the impact on falling markets on your balance.

Speak to a retirement specialist today at Sage Financial Group to protect your retirement fund. Call 9445 2955 for de-tails.

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JACK ‘Skinny’ Martin was an enterprising man who saw the need for entertainment in Perth in the years after World War II. Thanks to his good-planning and air the Tivoli Club was born, attracting people of all ages to performances down the years.

Dwarfed by surround-ing buildings, the Applec-ross District Hall remains the venue for the all-sing-ing, all-dancing, colourful Tivoli troupe who enter-tain audiences with their special themed shows through the year. Behind the tap dancing, danc-ing, joke-telling volunteer performers is an inspiring story of hard slog, long hours rehearsing and a dedication many might envy.

Recent events have put this year’s shows on hold, but the club, which is totally self-funded, is hoping to stage a Christ-mas show. People need light entertainment and a laugh today now more than ever.

“Before the 1970s there wasn’t much happening entertain-ment-wise around Perth,” says Tivoli Club president Sandy Sharp-en. “”Then along came Jack ‘Skinny’ Martin in 1971 who put shows together for football and bowling clubs or anyone who wanted to hire per-formers.

“Jack was a comedi-an and he, a magician and an acrobatic group performed everywhere. They became so popular it was decided in 1973 to have a permanent venue

at the Applecross hall. Jack was quite an en-trepreneur and ran bingo on Saturday nights which helped pay for costumes and overheads such as rent and the band.

“The club has always been voluntary with no paid performers. Back in the 80s and 90s Dor-othy Trembath, a leading teacher of acrobatics, was the producer-cho-reographer and husband Bill the musical director. Daughter Marilyn joined as a choreographer after performing in the Unit-ed States with the likes of Liza Minnelli, Wayne Newton and Sammy Da-vis junior.

The Tivoli Club usually has around 18 to 24 per-formers for each show comprising singers, dancers and comedians. Some performers have

moved on to professional careers including danc-ing at the Moulin Rouge in Paris. Singer Jackie Love was a performer at the Tivoli before achiev-ing national fame and others include soprano Rachelle Durkin, actress Tammy MacIntosh, Pa-tricia Stephenson, Colin Hurley and Peter McIlroy.

The late Richard (Dick) Morris was a leading light at the Tivoli for many years, delight-ing audiences with his repartee, comedy turns and naughty innuendo. He migrated to Australia from the United Kingdom with wife Maureen and their two daughters, who also performed at the Tivoli Club.

“Dick had worked overseas professional-ly and his rst love was comedy, but he was also

a singer,” Sandy said. “He taught many of us and was extremely gen-erous with his time.”

One of the star turns down the years has been the Tivoli Tap-pers, a group of around four women whose tap dancing always delights. Among them is Roberta, 83, who can still take a stylish turn around the stage.

The Tivoli Youth Per-formers (formerly the Tivolettes) aged 6 to 17, take the opportunity to gain stage experience and con dence for the future.

In October the club calls for submissions for ideas for next year’s shows and three are cho-sen. The director choos-es the music, ideas for costumes and puts the shows together, as well

as directing. Hardwork-ing seamstress, Elaine has sewn the colour-ful costumes for about 20 years, a big job with many hours of work in-volved.

Rehearsals twice a week take 10 weeks, starting in February for an April show. Most shows are well attend-ed and the Christmas event is quickly booked out. Various groups often book three shows a year in advance. Auditions for new performers are held four to six weeks before rehearsals begin.

“Several young per-formers are now studying at the WA Academy of Performing Arts,” Sandy said. “Performers like the fact there is no pressure, it’s friendly and fun.”

About 18 years ago Jackie Atkins and her

sister Candy Rostron de-cided on the chicken and chips menu served at interval which has been a big success. Sandy Sharpen introduced the three separate shows format which works well.

“We want both audi-ences and performers to have fun and enjoy something aff ordable,” Sandy said. “Tivoli is se-cure as a club and looks forward to re-opening when the current restric-tions are lifted. It’s some-thing to enjoy in these stressful times.”


In good times and bad Perth’s Tivoli Club entertains and delights

Left to right; Tivoli Club president Sandy Sharpen - the Tivoli Club usually has around 18 to 24 performers for each show comprising singers, dancers and comedians

LONDON’S best detectives take on its worst crimes in London Kills a sleek British mystery series from the cre-ator of Suspects.

Veteran DI David Brad-ford (Hugo Speer, Britan-nia) heads an elite murder squad, but he’s been on leave following the unex-plained disappearance of

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DS Vivienne Cole (Sharon Small, The Inspector Lyn-ley Mysteries) has been leading the investigations. When Bradford returns to work, the two clash over their methods and lines of inquiry.

Despite the tension,

Bradford and Cole strive to solve complex crimes, along with DC Rob Brady (Bailey Patrick, Bodyguard) and trainee DC Billie Fitz-gerald (Tori Allen-Mar-tin, Unforgotten). Togeth-er, the team probes the staged suicide of an MP’s son; a groom killed at his bachelor party; the corpse

of a married man discov-ered by his mistress; and a body washed up near the Thames.

The only case David can’t crack is the one most personal to him – until an-other of their investigations uncovers evidence linked to his missing wife.

London Kills Series one released on DVD 6 May – RRP $29.55.

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Swinging 60s - a collection of

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*Eligible pensioners and veterans may be entitled to free or subsidised digital hearing aids and free hearing services. Conditions apply to clients under the HSP. To fi nd out if you’re eligible, visit hearingservices.gov.au.

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Before getting hearing aids there was a period of about a year and a half when I couldn’t hear well. I felt socially isolated because I didn’t know what people were saying; conversations were out of my reach. I felt ashamed to have to say “I beg your pardon”. And it was really embarrassing when, on occasion, I hadn’t heard the full conversation and had responded accordingly. So during that period of my life and my husband Martin’s too, social contact centred around our children because they were aware of my problem and made allowances.

Martin and I have been together 57 years and I have to say he’s been very patient about my hearing problems. I understand that hearing loss could be very annoying to those around us because it aff ects others quite a bit too. For my part, I was tired of living in a relatively silent world where conversations were interrupted, connectedness was restricted, spontaneity was stalled and small talk was just about impossible, and I knew I had to do something about it. I couldn’t even have a decent telephone conversation on my mobile when I was out or in company because the volume was set so high, anyone near me could overhear the discussion.

A breakthrough came when I saw a story in the paper a few years ago that I related

to, about a farmer who had been helped by Brad, and the experience

he described before getting hearing aids sounded similar

to mine. So I thought that I’d try to achieve an outcome like his, and was fi tted with devices around six years ago that have just been replaced with the newest hearing aid technology. These fresh

aids are wonderful and have truly enriched my life. I wear

them all day every day, and I am completely dependent

upon them to hear well enough to remain connected.I can now join in on conversations

and feel part of the group rather than feeling left out and I am no longer exhausted

from trying so hard to listen. I’m more confi dent in my participation because I don’t have to continually ask for repeats. And it’s better for my friends too because they no longer have to worry about my embarrassment at not having heard what they’ve said.

Now I’m able to participate like people with normal hearing. Martin and I talk to each other constantly, I’m happy in a crowd and our lives are much the better for hearing aids. Thanks to Brad and staff at Brad Hutchinson Hearing for their wonderful care. Annette Visagie

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